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Bradley Manning Deserves 60-Year Sentence, Government Argues
Matt Sledge huffingtonpost.com FORT MEADE, Md. -- Bradley Manning's crimes were so serious that he deserves to spend 60 years in prison, the government argued on Monday. While acknowledging that Manning is young and pleaded guilty to some of the charges against him, Army prosecutor Capt. Joe Morrow said Manning "betrayed" the United States and "deserves to spend the majority of his remaining life in confinement." Manning is the 25-year-old Army private first class who sent 700,000 sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks. While his supporters argue that he was acting in the public interest to expose crimes in U.S. wars abroad, Morrow said he had done no such thing. "It wasn't a greater good, it wasn't good at all, it was destructive," he said. As the sentencing phase of Manning's case concludes, his defense has sought to portray him as a troubled soldier acting under the great stress of gender dysphoria at the time of his actions. But the government rejected that argument. "The United States is not disputing that Pfc. Manning may have been struggling with his gender identity. The government's only question is why that matters," Morrow said. He claimed that there were other soldiers in Manning's unit who were open about being gay. "The Army didn't abandon Pfc. Manning, Pfc. Manning abandoned the Army," Morrow said. "The Army didn't betray Pfc. Manning, Pfc. Manning betrayed the Army." Manning faces a maximum of 90 years in prison. If military judge Col. Denise Lind grants the government its request, Manning will receive a sentence far greater than some military members convicted of espionage.
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