Not to blow off what Manning did, but I'm far less pissed about him than I am about the fact that that the Pentagon is going ape sh!t on an epic level about the leak of secret documents by one guy, but no one in either the DoD or Washington has any substantive comment about the BILLIONS of dollars that are missing from the Iraq Reconstruction fund:
BBC News - US 'fails to account' for Iraq reconstruction billions
There's a big difference to me between a rogue guy or two (or ten) stealing, and widespread systemic misappropriation.