"and successfully liberated far more of the data belonging to the public."
This is completely false.
The information Manning released absolutely did not belong in the public domain. Period.
Governments, like any other private entity are allowed to keep confidential information.
Much of what manning released was private conversations between state department officials and their counterparts in the Middle East. The damage could have been much worse.
It's really sad to see so manny people think that 'individual privacy is paramount' but then can't grasp that other actors, including state actors, don't have reasonable rights to privacy.
This is completely false.
The information Manning released absolutely did not belong in the public domain. Period.
Governments, like any other private entity are allowed to keep confidential information.
Much of what manning released was private conversations between state department officials and their counterparts in the Middle East. The damage could have been much worse.
It's really sad to see so manny people think that 'individual privacy is paramount' but then can't grasp that other actors, including state actors, don't have reasonable rights to privacy.
It's beyond naive.