One could be in a cell for life. The other is free for the moment in Russia. Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden are two American heroes who have shown how desperate the American government has become. The government tells us that we don't need to keep secrets from them unless we are up to no good. But when the citizens turn that line back on the government, they completely ignore it. Bradley Manning leaked information such as the murders by the United States Armed Forces of Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen (Reuters reporters), among others. They were shot by people in gunships. A misidentification is one thing. But a coverup followed. "For more than two years after the shooting, Reuters and other organizations sought probes into the deaths of Noor-Eldeen and other journalists killed in Iraq, but the U.S. military withheld key information on the grounds that it was classified. The military also refused to release a video taken from one of the gu...