Tainted Saints

As Bradley Manning Trial Begins, Press Predictably Misses the Point

“… a lot of editorialists at the [Bradley] Manning trial, who have decided that the ‘real story“‘in the Manning case is what this incident showed about our lax security procedures, our lack of good due diligence in vetting the folks we put in charge of our vital information…. If you can convince the American people that this case is about mental state of a single troubled kid from Crescent, Oklahoma, then the propaganda war has been won already….

This case is entirely about the ‘classified’ materials Manning had access to, and whether or not they contained widespread evidence of war crimes. This whole thing, this trial, it all comes down to one simple equation. If you can be punished for making public a crime, then the government doing the punishing is itself criminal….

The debate we should be having is over whether as a people we approve of the acts he uncovered that were being done in our names.” - Matt Taibi, Rolling Stone

(via liberalsarecool)