Reply #217: sorry, under the law he is not a whistleblower [View All]

[TorchTheWitch]

and does not qualify for whistleblower protection for two reasons:

1) He did not steal only that information that revealed crimes or corruption. He does not even KNOW what information was contained in the vast majority of what he stole, and since he does not even KNOW what information was contained in the vast majority of the information that he stole he could not have stolen it for the purpose of revealing crimes or corruption in the first place.

2) He did not go through the required channels to reveal the information and instead gave it all to a foreign entity.

Like it or not, whistleblower protection is granted by law only under the conditions described in The Whistleblower Protection Act, and even a cursory reading of the Act reveals that Manning does not qualify for whistleblower protection and is therefore not a whistleblower under the law.


What other crimes other people have committed or possibly have committed has NO bearing on Manning's case, and it absurd to use the argument that because nothing has been done about other crimes that nothing should be done about his.


How ironic that people here are screaming about "justice" for Manning while ignoring the law and using the ridiculous excuse that because nothing was done about other crimes by other people nothing should be done about Manning's crimes. There IS no justice without adherence to the law, and there IS no justice in advocating ignoring one person's crimes because some other peoples' crimes went WRONGFULLY ignored. It's ludicrous.