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(108,903 posts) Wed Jun 5, 2013, 07:57 AM Jun 2013

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Bradley Manning Is Guilty of “Aiding the Enemy”—If the Enemy Is Democracy

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/05

Pfc. Bradley Manning (Portrait by Robert Shetterly)

Of all the charges against Bradley Manning, the most pernicious—and revealing—is “aiding the enemy.”

A blogger at The New Yorker, Amy Davidson, raised a pair of big questions that now loom over the courtroom at Fort Meade and over the entire country:

* “Would it aid the enemy, for example, to expose war crimes committed by American forces or lies told by the American government?”

* “In that case, who is aiding the enemy—the whistleblower or the perpetrators themselves?”