leaked a whole bunch of military documents while on active duty, got court-martialed and convicted, sentenced to 35 years but only served 7, had his genitals cut off in jail
You're not telling the full story, it's important you know what she leaked
- Manning leaked a video that showed a US Apache helicopter gunning down a group of unarmed men in Iraq. Two of the victims were journalists for Reuters. The US government claimed they were "armed insurgents"
- Manning also leaked information that the US knew of widespread torture of prisoners at hands of Iraqi Security Forces, but chose to ignore it and issued "Frago 242" which prevented investigation into Iraqi torture.
- Manning also revealed how the CIA kidnapped an innocent German citizen and shipped him off to be torture. The two CIA agents were arrested by the German government, but the US persuaded them to drop the charges.
- Manning revealed how corporations rely on the State Department to keep wages low in poorer countries. For example, in Haiti, the US embassy there pressured the Haitian president to block a minimum wage increase, at the behest of Hanes and Levi's who manufacture clothes in that country.
There are many other things Manning revealed, and the US government's investigation found no one was killed as a result of the leaks. She was sentenced to prison, and suffered treatment the UN called "cruel, inhuman and degrading".
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