You ate up mostly propaganda dear. Here is what he is accused of:
- Releasing more material than any journalistic outlet. Following at least in large parts a logic looking like this:
(12:16:38 PM) bradass87: or Guantanamo, Bagram, Bucca, Taji, VBC for that matter…
(12:17:47 PM) bradass87: things that would have an impact on 6.7 billion people
(12:21:24 PM) bradass87: say… a database of half a million events during the iraq war… from 2004 to 2009… with reports, date time groups, lat-lon locations, casualty figures… ? or 260,000 state department cables from embassies and consulates all over the world, explaining how the first world exploits the third, in detail, from an internal perspective? […]
src:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/manning-lamo-logs/
That automatically (amount) resulted in not redacting every name in the material. That didn't mean, that they did and don't withhold material dangerous for sources and individuals, because they did.
To this day - there is no confirmed case, where someone was harmed as a direct result of one of the releases.
At the same time, we are now living in a world, where people can do correlation analysis on open datasets (fitness tracker info, exif location info on photos), and are selling that aggregated data people disseminate for free, for cents, so any Bozo can find out the daily routines of members of the security services, or even the daily movement patterns of your president, or his children Same with members of private security companies.
In addition, in the conflict he is accused of doing that in - the US by far dominated in an oppressive matter - so the general risk of something happening to them on the ground was and is low to non existent. Much less civilians lives.
In fact - publishing a video, that showed US forces mowing down civilians for fun, was one of the points of contention, why he currently is in the situation he is in. He reached mass public perception - and thats what got him into trouble.
Assange also isn't a russian stooge. The ideology is way different. But he likely was used as a means of disseminating russian propaganda, when Wikileaks still had the reach (people thought it was cool, without knowing what it was), way back when.
So if you want to spread dark Propaganda and lie into peoples faces - maybe get out of the forum dear. Thanks.
You are not interpreting the situation, you are openly misrepresenting it. And the worst thing is, that people get recruited believing in the bullshit you do. Thats what owning media (being able to deduce what flies as 'mainstreamable opinion') can do for you. (On the societal level.)
And that was also what Wikileaks initially threatened.
Assange has been in confinement for nearly ten years now. Every US democratic government couldnt care less about him, or what he had done. But people within the tertiary sector, in agencies and political parties cant forgive, and want to make sure there is only scorched earth left, so no one, no one is willing to repeat an act of whistleblowing on the scale that became possible through Wikileaks for the first time. Thats what this is all about at the moment.
Institutionalized payback and revenge. Its the best currently available representation of the conservative ethos of kicking everyone thats already down, so you can solidify your position.
The principle you have Mary Sue Jesus for, so you can still claim, that this is not how your societies work.
How about throwing Trump into Gitmo, btw - because his chief political adviser made it extremely publicly obvious, how easy it is to still crawl publicly available Facebook information, aggregat it, segment it for pattern analysis, and pull of highly unlikely wins in elections with it? So make use of it for power politics. By making that plainly obvious, that guy personally endangered each and every american citizen, including security personal more so - than any Manning cable. Its just - they didn't do it to the military elite of an entire country. Lets tie him up in court as a spy - not for opening up state secrets, but the ones of every american citizen. How about that?
Oh no - then and there you have nothing to hide... But when it comes to military operation specifics on a war that you initiated, for bullshit reasons, and the world didn't want to fight, and to diplomatic cables (not highly confidential ones - just base levels stuff mostly - because Manning didn't have the security clearances, and was no Snowden (sysadmin)), oh no - now you get angry at someone violating privacy principles. Sure...
How dare he inform the world, what was happening.
Hey and if you are a democrat still crying over the agenda setting in terms of the Hillary emails (Propaganda, mostly) - well, that was FBI director Comey for the most part. Throw him in Gitmo as well, while you are at it, right?
Go watch another Marvel movie, bois.