What Manning did was stupid. And while I agree that 35 years is harsh (mostly because I don't believe in prison terms above 5 years) he leaked a lot of stuff, n

What Manning did was stupid. And while I agree that 35 years is harsh (mostly because I don't believe in prison terms above 5 years) he leaked a lot of stuff, not all of it related to warcrimes. The 1.5 gigabyte unecrypted file is in the torrents so you could take a look to see what is inside - if it is legal under your jurisdiction. Also WikiLeaks didn't released all cables that he gave them against - so he failed on that front too. He also didn't make a dead man's switch that he could leak additional material in case he is captured or convicted - that to use as bargaining chip. He called himself Bradass83 as a nickname and approached a hacker on im program. So - he leaked too much, too nondiscriminatory, failed to it properly and was behaving amateurish.