Do you believe that he is a scapegoat?

[ibodi]

[BCA6010]

Not the word I'd use; it appears that he was identified as a leaker a while ago and was exploited for ulterior motives. The way our security clearances work would make it extremely difficult for him to have gotten ahold of the documents he leaked without someone having gone out of their way to get them into his hands, and the next most plausible explanation is that his colleagues have demonstrated grotesque negligence consistently over the course of about 9 months. The idea that he did any of this alone doesn't pass the sniff test either way.

The media is also either asking the wrong questions, or playing along with the ruse. I'm inclined to believe the latter, because the result of this "leak" is that the government wants to use it as an excuse to censor social media platforms, which any and all news companies would have a vested interest in.

[exitseven]

He is not but might be one in the future. He was just doing it to impress the other losers on that website. When you join the military you take an oath to defend the constitution against all invaders, foreign and domestic. He gave up secrets and not to show how dishonest Biden is but to just look like a bigshot toa bunch of cellar dwellers.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[purplepoppy]

No he's a smug little shit who was given more responsibility than his ego could handle.

[jshm2]

No. Like Snowden and Manning before him. He is proof that the system itself is corrupt and insecure as fuck.

The USA is not the right state to be leading.

[AngryCarl2]

I don't know what you mean by scapegoat? If he released secret information about America's operations in Ukraine I'd call him a traitor. What does he think Putin would do to a Russian who did the same thing?

[richardcory]

Not if he actually stole and released the info. We'll see after a trial

[call_me_scar]

Nope just a silly person but him releasing those files was a good thing transparency is important

[goaded]

No, he's a moron.