So the current charge (and likely won't be the oly one) is tied to the bradley manning stuff. The problem is the material doesn't fit the meme that either side is trying to present. The Neocons are claiming the he put people in jeopardy. I've sifted enough through the Iraq War Diaries to know that isn't the case. It was just boring reports on incidents in Iraq. Basically it was just a giant tally of enemy, friendly, and civilian casualties, with a small one-two paragraph report tied to each data point.
So it didn't endanger anyone and that particular project of wikileaks wasn't uncovering anything illegal. It was just really boring raw Intel.
The sadest thing was the most common report I read basically was
This or that unit was stationed in a market. Al queda associated forces threw a grenade at the humve. They fled resulting in no prolonged combat. The grenade did not kill any personnel. It did kill several civilians outside the humve in the market.
Green Red Blue
0 0 5 Wounded
0 0 3 Dead
It was a mysql database so I was reading them at random with SELECT * FROM reports ORDER BY RANDOM() LIMIT 1; And I just kept reading that report over and over. Sometimes that report would exist with an rpg instead and the civilian deaths would be higher.
Useful stuff for the public to see but nothing endangering and nothing illegal being reported.
As much as I probably shouldn't say this, jump on mumble if you have a minute and I've got more questions. If you don't I think the point you are making is that the US fucked up massively, and I agree.
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