Scipio, This guy was one of the main offenders. You will notice it had nothing to do with "public service" more to do with wanting to soothe an ego. ...........................................
BRADLEY MANNING will wake up today at a military base in Virginia to his 190th day in custody, accused of passing more than 250,000 diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks.
Private Manning faces a court martial and up to 52 years in prison for his alleged role in copying the diplomatic cables, as well as the leak of military logs about incidents in Afghanistan and Iraq and a classified military video that showed a crew of a US Apache helicopter gunning down a group of men who they thought had a rocket launcher. They turned out to include Reuters staff with a TV camera.
In the new year he will face a pre-trial hearing, then, his lawyer expects, a public court martial in New York state.
he talked about how he felt that no one had ever noticed him in life.
''[I'm] regularly ignored except when I had something essential then it was back to 'bring me coffee, then sweep the floor','' he told the former hacker, who asked what he would do if his cover was blown during an online chat shortly after he allegedly sent the files to WikiLeaks. ''[I] felt like I was an abused work horse.''
Private Manning even added an ''emoticon'' of a crying face :'(. ........................................ http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/accused-whistleblower-just-wanted-to-live-a-normal-life-20101201-18gp5.html
