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Bradley Manning is the US Army solider who released a number of classified documents including video of air strikes to WikiLeaks. His trial is currently underway. Until I saw this the case was only vaguely on my radar. It raises interesting questions about the cost of war, transparency, and treason. The thing that pops out most at me is that a soldier contemplating gender reassignment surgery with documented mental health issues would have access to classified documents. It appears at this time Manning is facing up to 20 years in prison. 

"The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason." -T. S. Eliot

 "A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law." -Kurt Huber

 "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." -Howard Zinn

 "You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it." -Malcolm X