Leyton-Brown: Is Bradley Manning a whistle-blower or a traitor?
Professor of Political Science, York University
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The real situation is not as black and white as this question – he broke the laws concerning classified information (so he is not a simple whistle-blower), but he did not do so to aid a foreign power (so he is not strictly speaking a traitor).