Manning paying for busting US 'illegal, stupid foreign policy'

Washington is coming under increasing fire over its treatment of Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks.

"I think the government has created a lot of secrecy over the Bradley Manning case, because he is revealing a lot of their secrets. And if they open this up he may even reveal more. They don't know that he revealed them. In other words, they have not yet presented evidence that Bradley Manning was the source of WikiLeaks," said Saul Landau, Senior Fellow and Vice Chair of the Institute for Policy Studies, in California.

“And what WikiLeaks has done essentially has been the great crime of national security era which is to show that the government is operating illegally and stupidly in terms of its foreign policy.”

Saul Landau made the comments in an exclusive interview with Press TV's U.S. Desk on Monday. Landau believes the documents published by WikiLeaks have not done any harm to people but rather revealed U.S.' illegal interference in other countries' affairs

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Manning has not yet been tried.

Edit to add: "Manning could face up to 52 years in prison if convicted." That is incorrect. Manning faces life in prison, or a death sentence if convicted. The prosecution is not expected to pursue the death penalty.

from Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted even in an investigation.

A man exposes crimes, and HE is the one facing the death penalty.

Does anyone have to ask why this country is in the mess it is in?

is into the business of every, single country in the world. Influencing their elections, as in Europe and Australia, eg. I think while Americans have ignored the leaks to a large extent, the rest of the world has not and citizens of countries like Britain eg, were quite shocked to see the influence the US has exercised over their politicians. Hopefully the revelations will help keep people more alert to foreigners getting involved in their affairs.

It's not as if that influence has in any way benefited those countries, they haven't been worse off in decades. Ireland, eg, the worst thing that happened to Ireland was bringing US-style Capitalism to that country. Its economy is now totally destroyed, as is every other country in the world that we were involved in with our brilliant Randian ideas.

That was what shocked me most about the Wikileaks docs and still does the more I read them. How this country has its fingers in every pie, all over the world, and mostly supporting the most corrupt and brutal governments.

It is a tragedy that our media did not bring those documents to the attention of the American people, but I guess they were not allowed. The article is so correct, the release of the documents harmed no one BUT the US Government which has far, far too many secrets.

...for our crimes will be ever regain respect nationally or at home.