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I'll bet Pfc. Manning doesn't even know how much of his exfiltration job was to get back at the Army, and how much was to "blow the whistle".

This makes it hard to blow the whistle on corrupt officials, because the bribe-giver has also broken the law.

If you blow the whistle on something then all of your resources are put into getting to the whistleblowing stage.

I was born in the 70s and the US was the country you would run to to escape retribution for whistleblowing you did back home.

The intent was quite likely to intimidate other journalists, whistle blowers, or just people in a position to help them.

On another story these same corrupt assholes have abused their power to send a whistle blower to jail and serve a 10 years term [2].Nice going, keep it up newage SS!

I think it is the flip side of aggressively prosecuting whistleblowers, it sends a signal to the rest of the people in the employ of the government.

Then, as a reservist in law school, I blew the whistle on the NSA when I stumbled across a program that involved illegally eavesdropping on US citizens.

If the government equates being a whistleblower with espionage or aiding the enemy, what is the future of journalism in this country?

I left Google voluntarily but, since you asked, I did blow the whistle on unethical management practices, and I was chagrined when absolutely nothing changed.

Manning didn't leak "war crimes", he leaked whatever info he could download, without verifying that it was all actually evidence deserving of whistle-blowing.

What is the future of the First Amendment?Mannings treatment, prosecution, and sentencing have one purpose: to silence potential whistleblowers and the media as well.

Not, "Oh, look at all this data I have access to, let's just FTP this shiat up to the latest foreign national to hit the news".In the DoD whistle-blowing is actually a thing, believe it or not.

So, what did you expect them to blow a whistle on?For instance, Google and Microsoft are both now reporting ranges of the NSLs they receive; in effect, a kind of whistleblowing, albeit a legal and vetted one.

People are upset with Google because they trusted an ever increasing amount of their personal data to a company who's mantra is, "Don't be evil", only to discover Google was facilitating snooping from a third party whistle blower.

A fascinating interview with the NSA whistleblower, which ends with a chilling prediction of where the logic of manifest destiny and exceptionalism will lead the United States:There will be a time where policies will change, because the only thing which restricts the activites of the surveillance state are policy, even our agreements with other sovereign governments; we consider that to be a stipulation of policy, rather than a stipulation of law.