"It has been a very bad week for democracy. In particular, it has been a bad week for Americans who have placed the right of the people to know what their government is doing above their own well-being.

Today, Bradley Manning, a 25-year-old idealistic Army private who sacrificed his freedom to expose the criminality of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, was sentenced to 35 years in a military prison. ..." 

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