Bradley Manning stole over 700,000 classified documents and handed them over to a hostile foreign national. Not because he wanted to make the world a better place, but because he didn't like being in the Army. That is not responsible disclosure by any stretch of the imagination.

Even if government employees were protected for blowing the whistle, what about the 690-something thousand documents that had absolutely nothing to do with anything sinister? Why didn't he even make the slightest attempt to bring light to the issue through official channels? You can't go to court and say that the system would have failed you if you didn't even give it a chance.

I'm not saying he deserves life in prison or anything, but make no mistake, he's a traitor, not a patriot.