Quote from: SEC agent on June 06, 2013, 03:12:43 PM

We even have whistleblower protection laws to prevent any retaliation from the Feds as a result.

Quote from: SEC agent on June 06, 2013, 03:34:14 PM

If Manning had stood up like a man and gone through the proper channels, we wouldn't be having this discussion. Hell, I might've even joined with you guys and called him a hero.

Quote from: SEC agent on June 06, 2013, 03:48:25 PM

If he wanted to be a whistleblower, there are perfectly legal ways to do so (none of which endanger American lives).

Quote from: SEC agent on June 06, 2013, 04:16:05 PM

Manning had quite a few options, but chose to betray his country out of cowardice.

Let's sum up: there were perfectly legal ways to disclose the acts and he would have been protected so this would have been no drawbacks at all for him to go through the "proper channels"
Yet, he decided ("chose") to pick the riskiest way to do so

So according to you, deliberately choosing the riskiest way makes him a coward
Makes sense