
“Mr. Manning’s lawyer, David Coombs, was ambiguous: ‘We won the battle, now we need to go win the war… Today is a good day, but Bradley is by no means out of the fire.’ WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, himself a fugitive and holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, described the verdict on Twitter as ‘dangerous national security extremism.’ If reflecting on what to make of the verdict seems difficult, consider this. The most critical issues of public policy raised by the Manning case have yet to be broached.”
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