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In reply to the discussion: What Manning Revealed - Read This & Tell Me Just WHO Is Our Government Keeping Safe? [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)And collect 5 and 6 digit speaking fees, plus all those scorpions who don't need to write books or give speeches because the companies they participate in, like Cheney and Halliburton, or Richard Blum's contracting company, made tens of millions of dollars off the Iraq War and they now look forward to lives of luxury, while Manning will have only a jail cell?
Answer: because those scorpions have the power to make the perverse and corrupted policies legal, despite their immorality, and they need the cover of darkness. Without penalizing whistleblowers, then the newly awakened citizens might use the leaked info to see that there can no longer be "business as bloody usual" inside the Beltway.
Somehow we can put Manning into jail for LIFE, while Senator Di Feinstein's perverted code of Senate Ethics allows a nation to be lied into war, and allows for Senators to vote for that war, and then that Senator can turn around and enable their spouses to make over 750 millions of dollars in war contracts during the next ten years.
And if anyone on DU thinks that Di Feinstein serves on the Senate Intelligence committee for the good of the nation, rather than as a way for her spouse to further enrich them with Surveillance Contracts, I have an oyster farm in Western Marin I can sell them.
(And please, realize that answering this with an "outraged" "You pick on Feinstein because she is a woman" nonsense will get only a smirk from me as response. Having a vagina does not allow a person to condemn over 6,000 US service people to death, along with a million Iraqi civilians, so that you and your husband can have a pretty 16 million dollar home in The Presidio with a "View to die for."