Umm, this guy is a real criminal & deserves a firing squad.

Bradley Manning & Julian Assange both did a public service & are facing jail for a long time????

This is the kind of crap that makes me angry at Obama.

He ought to knock it off, leave Assange & Manning alone & stop killing the wrong people with drones.

Don't start crying, I live in PA & with be pulling the straight "D" lever, and I am a volunteer for Manan Trivedi-D for the 6th Cong. District in PA, hopefully putting the POS Jim Gerlach into the unemployment line.

like Pinochet and Karamov and a whole list of other murderous dictators.

THAT is what has to change before any president of the US can reclaim any moral authority when it comes to human rights abuses anywhere else.

Our foreign policy is so insanely wrong. I doubt anyone could get anywhere close to the WH at this point if they even hinted that they want to change these policies and start supporting actual democracies, which we never seem to do, and start prosecuting war criminals.

And that won't happen so long as Democrats at least, keep turning a blind eye towards the atrocious history, not even history, we still support dictators, that has led to so much suffering in the world.

He knows too much, is too well connected and surely has allies here who will protect him at all costs.

These guys are all part of the same big international 'Club' As the Prophet Carlin said: "It's a Big Club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the Big Club."

I've seen a little bit about how these people are 'cultivated' from the time they are junior Officers, recruited, co-opted and made to do the bidding of those who really own and run this Planet.

Nothing has really changed in the last few Centuries. Perhaps superficially, but the way things are done, populations controlled and the resources (Things of value) of this Planet are doled out among the 'Powers that Be' and their minions who do the dirty work.

laying all the blame at 'Obama's feet'. I'd have to go back to read my comment, but I don't believe I even mentioned Obama since that would not have been relevant to my point at all. Seems you completely misinterpreted my point, which is, US Foreign policy over the past several decades involves supporting Dictators and helping coups against Democratically elected leaders and anyone who aspires to become president will not get even close to the WH if they show signs of maybe trying to change those policies.

If you disagree with this theory, then show me someone who got close or made it to the WH who did not overtly (Republicans) or covertly (Democrats) support the propping up of Dictators. Show me on President of the US over the past several decades who has spoken out strongly against these policies. And show me candidates who did and made it to the WH.

Given that these are still US policies, it is conceivable that someone who wants to do good for the country in other areas, understands that to get there, they have to either go along with these policies, or look the other way while trying to do good in other areas. Iow, I don't think any president alone can change these policies.

and the State Department has the audacity to criticize other countries's governments for alleged abuses of human rights and freedoms.