Is Bradley Manning a Traitor or a Whistleblower? I want …

Not really either, but if you put those two at the opposite ends of the spectrum that they belong at he is closer to the traitor end. He could not have known the content and the second, third, etc level impact of the content being released. He had the opinion that he didn't like what he saw from his vantage point of the world, but what he took and released far exceeded the world he understood.

If he had only released content that spoke of a specific known (by him) illegality then he would be maybe a little closer to the whistleblower side, but not at the extreme. But he didn't do anything close to that.

BTW is he being charged with any "traitor-like" charge? Or is that just what the politicians on both sides are saying? I thought it was just release of classified material - a different UCMJ violation.

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