<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5">On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 12:27 PM <</span><a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5">spike@rainier66.com</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5">> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Julian published a bunch of stuff stolen by Corporal Manning, which was<br>classified up the kazoo.  </i></blockquote><div><br></div><div> <span style="font-size:large;line-height:1.5">If he just published the stuff that Manning obtained then Julian shouldn't go to jail, everybody has the right to publish anything. And I have the right to say he was irresponsible for doing so; he didn't even know what he was publishing, there were 251</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;line-height:1.5;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span><span style="font-size:large;line-height:1.5">287 documents and I doubt </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;line-height:1.5;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">if </span><span style="font-size:large;line-height:1.5">he even skimmed 2% of them much less gave any thought to the lives he may put in danger.  That's why it's different from the Pentagon Papers, <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">that</span> embarrassed many people who deserve to be embarrassed but put no lives in danger</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;line-height:1.5;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">. A</span><span style="font-size:large;line-height:1.5">nd if Julian did more and actively </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;line-height:1.5;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">encouraged</span><span style="font-size:large;line-height:1.5"> Manning to steal the stuff then he's guilty of espionage.  </span><span style="line-height:1.5">  </span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>But the way he really pissed off masses of people<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>is in publishing stuff that was not classified at all.  The biggest deal was<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>obtained by guessing a password (the victim's password was Password.)<br>Sheesh.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">That's irrelevant, I may be foolish if I don't lock the door on my house but that doesn't give you the right to come in and steal all my stuff. </span> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">And that stuff unearthed contained no scandals it was just office backbiting and gossip, but people love to read about how X thinks Y is a jerk, and it got Trump elected.  </span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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