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> And really, the thing that got him most in trouble were the hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables that exposed no wrongdoing

You've clearly not read the cables. they were responsible for at least two revolutions [1][2], and we're still learning from them.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/13/amnesty-interna...

[2] http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/wikihistory-did-l...

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The cables themselves didn't express any American wrongdoing though. It expressed American opinions regarding other nations' governments and internal politics.

And either way I wouldn't be so quick to claim that inciting those revolutions is on the balance a positive thing for either Manning or Wikileaks, for the same reason that toppling Saddam's despotic regime was not (on the balance) a good thing.

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