By: dizzy

In reply to terracottatoes.

Your last paragraph describes my feelings perfectly. It’s a shame the law forces the defence to argue things like gayness instead of being able to simply argue that Manning did the right thing.

Ok, then I do get what they are arguing. Well, it seems a little silly to argue that secret gayness makes you inherently capable of handling classified information. I am sure there are plenty of secret gay people in the military who are able to handle secret information without their secret gayness getting in the way.

For their argument to be successful then Bradley Manning’s secret gayness must have been so stressful to him he was psychologically unfit to handle secret information. Maybe it it’s true and Manning’s lawyers can demonstrate it’s true. But it’s not necessarily or ordinarily true, so I don’t have any objections to the prosecution disputing his argument in court.