Obama: "So people can have philosophical views [about Bradley Manning] but I can't conduct diplomacy
on an open source [basis]... That's not how the world works. And if you're in the military... And I have
to abide by certain rules of classified information. If I were to release material I weren't allowed to, I'd
be breaking the law. We're a nation of laws! We don't let individuals make their own decisions about
how the laws operate. He broke the law."
Q: "Didn't he release evidence of war crimes?"
Obama: "What he did was he dumped..."
Q: "Isn't that just the same thing as what Daniel Ellsberg did?"
Obama: "No it wasn't the same thing. Ellsberg's material wasn't classified in the same way
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