Activists rallied outside the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia, Sunday to applaud the man military officials suspect leaked scores of military documents to the WikiLeaks website - a 22-year-old Army private named Bradley Manning.
"We are here to say that if he, indeed, was the whistle-blower, then we are proud of him," said Medea Benjamin, founder of anti-war group Code Pink. "In the United States that I know and love, transparency is a positive thing."
Manning, who served as an intelligence analyst in Iraq, is the military's focus in the investigation into the largest-ever intelligence leak in American history, to WikiLeaks.org.
He is being detained at Quantico pending a military investigation in a separate case, in which he's charged with eight violations of the U.S. Criminal Code, including for allegedly leaking a secret military video from the Iraq war to WikiLeaks.
I guess Code Pink is all about breaking the law for their own purposes, eh? They staged an illegal protest in Berkley outside the USMC recruiting station there, then had the town council retroactively adjust the law to support them. They're all about Manning violating the UCMJ to give away information that will result in dead US servicemembers.
But if there happen to be any prosecutable actions contained in the WikiLeaks documents? You can bet Code Pink is suddenly going to find legal 'religion' and insist that the 'perpetrators' be strung up by their nutsacks over the Burning Man Festival.
I guess they're all about breaking the law - as long as they get to choose which ones to break.
By: Brant
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