Four Reasons Why Bradley Manning Deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Four Reasons Why Bradley Manning Deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom

1. At great personal cost, Bradley Manning has given The USA foreign policy elite the public supervision it so badly needs.

2. Knowledge is powerful. The WikiLeaks disclosures have helped spark what Operation Iraqi Freedom never could.

3. Bradley Manning has exposed the pathological over-classification of America's public documents.

4. At immense personal cost, Bradley Manning has upheld a great American tradition of transparency in statecraft and for that he should be an American hero.