Supporters of Bradley Manning consider him a ‘patriot,’ not a traitor

From THE DAILY CALLER:

While much of a America views Bradley Manning, the private first class who has been accused of leaking secret documents to WikiLeaks, as a traitor, he does have some defenders who consider him nothing less than a patriot…

Kevin Zeese, a member of the steering committee of the Bradley Manning Support Network … tells the story of Manning as a loss of innocence tale. The story of Manning, he says, is about “a guy who believes in America,” enlists in the army, and gets to Iraq only to discover that the country has, in Zeese’s words, “gone off track.” If he doesn’t do anything, Zeese said, imagining Manning’s decision-making process, he’d be “complicit.” …

On Sunday, David House, a friend of Manning who visits him regularly at Quantico, and Jane Hamsher, founder of the liberal blog Firedoglake, were detained when they attempted to visit Manning. The two were prohibited both from seeing Manning and from leaving the base, and by the time they were released, visiting hours for the week had ended…

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