General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Pfc Bradley Manning Must Be Pilloried to Maintain the USofA’s Authoritarian Rule [View all]struggle4progress
(118,280 posts)The defense was suggesting, at one time during the pretrial hearings, that Manning's behavior resulted from his sexual confusion
Another plausible explanation might be that he was so lonely and unhappy in the military, that he started to seek ways to get positive attention somewhere, and thus hit on the idea of dumping documents to Wikileaks to impress some of his hacker friends
Unfortunately, portraying him as a whistle-blower requires a long long uphill climb: if Manning spent 12 hrs/da and 7 da/wk selecting documents for download and downloading them the whole time he was in Iraq, he couldn't have devoted on average more than 15 seconds of his attention per document he released. That means he really couldn't have had any clear idea what was in the majority of the documents