Endgame Viable

I mentioned Bradley Manning in a previous post, so to follow-up on that, and to let you know that I have not yet been murdered by the strange late-night knocker I mentioned in another previous post: Manning was sentenced to 35 years. The news report that I heard (from CBS News I think) said that he might only serve 7 of those years.

While I’m definitely not in the camp of people who think this guy is a hero, I’m also not sure that copying some files of dubious value deserves a 35-year sentence. It seems rather less treasonous than, say, a ring of German spies operating in the U.S. prior to World War II. Yet strangely, the Duquesne Spy Ring got considerably shorter sentences.

The moral of this story is: If you’re going to speak truth to power, make it a good speech.