This really puts the whole Hillary Clinton email scandal into perspective, huh?<p>The message seems to be that if you leak classified data to the American people you get a big punishment, whereas if you leak classified data carelessly (Clinton) or for your girlfriend's book (Petraeus) the most you can expect is a slap on the wrist. That's f ed up.
When you write a letter to someone facing 20+ years more in prison, who has just tried to kill herself, what do you say? I'm kind of at a loss for words -- "hope you get well soon?" "hope you are out of the hospital and back to your, uh, home soon?"<p><a href="https://www.chelseamanning.org/learn-more/write-to-chelsea-manning" rel="nofollow">https://www.chelseamanning.org/learn-more/write-to-chelsea-m...</a>
Is anyone surprised she's suicidal? Locked in solitary confinement, for a minimum of 8 years (probably a lot more), at the hands of an obviously vindictive government - I imagine that by now I would have tried to kill myself too.
This part seems a little bit ironic "Though she would have preferred to keep her private information private".<p>Is that not why she's come into the public eye? For releasing private information that some people would have preferred to keep private?<p>This isn't a comment on whether her leak was the right thing to do or not, just the whole "Treat others like you want others to treat you".