Bradley manning.

I became a lawyer because I wanted to stand up before a jury in a righteous cause. Well, there have been damn few of them, mostly becaue I am too much of a coward to find any.

This is why I found David F. Petranos "Bradley Manning" letter of last month so troubling. What kind of lawyer defends a deluded, despised, disgraced peacemaker? All Manning did was expose our drone program and other of our ill-fated attempts at nation-building and swashbuckling. The court martial board didn't find his leaks were disastrous, just unlawful.

Manning most likely merits his 25...