I don't think anyone expected Manning to be found innocent. But it will be quite telling whether he is eventually pardoned. The most worrisome aspect to me is

I don't think anyone expected Manning to be found innocent. But it will be quite telling whether he is eventually pardoned. The most worrisome aspect to me is that the administration does not appear to be remotely open to pardoning either Manning or Snowden, while at the same time ignoring the abuses each revealed. Before this happened, I would have expected the response to be more measured and would have expected there to be some kind of review/investigation of the crimes revealed by the leaks in tandem with attempts to punish the whistleblower... then later after the investigation a possible pardon. That we are not seeing this happen makes me wonder if I am wrong about the degree to which we have the rule of law in the US.