Why Bradley Manning Should Go Free

"Two major precedents -- one encouraging, the other troubling -- emerge from today's conviction of Bradley Manning on espionage charges, but not on charges of aiding the enemy. One is about the definition of journalism, and all the attendant protections that are supposed to come with that profession in a democracy. The other is about who America's government defines as patriotic heroes and who it deems traitorous villains."*

Bradley Manning faces the prospect of spending the rest of his life behind bars after being convicted of espionage. But why? Why are the priorities of the American government to persecute a man who publicized very credible allegations of torture and war crimes rather than pursue those who committed those crimes? Isn't it a soldier's duty to report war crimes? Cenk Uygur makes the case for freeing Bradley Manning.

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Why Bradley Manning Should Go Free