{"id":36816,"date":"2013-07-27T12:17:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T16:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36816"},"modified":"2013-07-27T12:17:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T16:17:23","slug":"judge-deliberates-breannas-fate-ny-times-wrings-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36816","title":{"rendered":"Judge deliberates Breanna’s fate; NY Times wrings hands"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that the defense has rested in the Breanna Manning spy trial and now the judge will deliberate the outcome in her mind, since Breanna chose to not have a jury;<\/p>\n

Army Col. Denise Lind began deliberating Friday after nearly two months of conflicting evidence and arguments about the 25-year-old intelligence analyst. A military judge, not a jury, is hearing the case at Manning’s request.<\/p>\n

Lind said she will give a day’s public notice before reconvening the court-martial to announce her findings. The most serious charge is aiding the enemy, which carries a potential life sentence in prison.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, the New York Times<\/a> frets over the prosecutor’s closing argument that Manning is guilty of “aiding the enemy”. <\/p>\n

That charge has never been brought in a leak case, and the theory behind it could establish a precedent with implications for investigative journalism in the Internet era. But Major Fein said it was justified in Private Manning\u2019s case. Prosecutors are seeking a life sentence.<\/p>\n

\u201cPfc. Manning was not a humanist; he was a hacker,\u201d Major Fein said, adding: \u201cHe was not a whistle-blower. He was a traitor, a traitor who understood the value of compromised information in the hands of the enemy and took deliberate steps to ensure that they, along with the world, received it.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, the Times is worried that, if Manning is found guilty, it will have a chilling effect on the people that the New York Times depends upon to excoriate political entities the Times doesn’t like – disloyal traitors. As well they should be.<\/p>\n

As with Eddie Snowden, my dislike of Manning stems from the fact that he took an oath and broke the oath, it doesn’t matter what the information was that either of them released to the public, it’s that we can’t have a precedence set that low level intelligence operatives get to declassify and release information to whomever and where ever they see fit. Immature little princesses don’t get to decide what information gets released to our enemies. <\/p>\n

If Manning and Snowden get away with their treachery, it devalues the oaths, and if we can’t take each other at our words, what is left of society? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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