Julian Assange called Bradley Manning the "quintessential whistleblower" and lambasted the Obama administration for "chipping away democratic freedoms" in a personal statement released shortly after Manning was found guilty on five counts of espionage in a military court on Tuesday.
Manning, who confessed to leaking a bounty of classified information about Afghanistan and Iraq, was acquitted of aiding the enemy, the most serious of the 21 counts he faced. However, Assange said the espionage conviction is the more troublesome issue, going so far as to call it "dangerous:"
This is the first ever espionage conviction against a whistleblower. It is a dangerous precedent and an example of national security extremism. It is a short sighted judgment that cannot be tolerated and must be reversed. It can never be that conveying true information to the public is ’espionage.’ Read more...
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