Bardley Manning is a protester in a position to expose what he considered wrong doing by the USA military to stop a war. Just that simple. He is completely innocent of any charges against him with the exception of violating his oath, if there is one, to prevent LEAKS to the public domaine.
There really isn't anything else to say. He is an American kid in a position to act on insight shared by a large community in the USA. He no more was seeking to empower ANY enemy. Ain't no way. The USA military is being foolish to even bring those allogations when there is absolutely no history of such activity in his past. I want to know where he has acted in this manner before with the specific intent of aiding the enemy. If that was 'the consequences' of a lack of insight to that reality, then the military had him very poorly trained for the responsible position he was in. He needs to be acquited and sent home to his family.
The extent this country is compromised by the wide ? intelligence ? network with security clearence out the 'a--' doesn't even come close to what could have happened. Bradley did everyone a favor.