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An example out of her to deter this new kind of leak that she basically was the first to figure out could be done and did carry out. >> charlie, what do you make about this prospect of julian assange from wikileaks coming back to the united states saying that he's already contesting any case against him of that the justice department might mount here. if he does stop fighting extradition and comes to the united states, what would you expect from that case? >> well, i'm not sure there are charges pending against him. there's not been any kind of confirmed report. he's not an american citizen an...

Call today. comcast business. built for business. today we learned two new things about the exxon ceo who has been nominated to be the secretary of state. the math on this is easy, if all 10 democrats on the committee vote no -- which is possible -- just one republican on the committee voted no to have rex tillerson's nomination fail in the committee. in all cases, failing in committee means the end of the nomination. that brings us to the second thing we learned today about this nomination. the second thing we learned is that failure in committee in this case would not be a problem. committ...

Three years. i believe the longest other sentence, the next-longest sentence is three and a half years. so the manning sentence is an order of magnitude greater than anyone else has ever received. of course her leak was, to be fair, to be fulsome of our discussions, it was qualitatively different than most other leaks. she was a bulk leaker, not "here's the secret" but "here's all the secrets." and it's clear the military and the prosecution was trying to throw the book at her and make an example out of her to deter this new kind of leak that she basically was the first to figure out could be ...

Deal and all he got was 240 hours of community service plus one year's probation. then there's john keir ya cue, he was a cia analyst. in 2012 he was charged with leaking classified information about a fellow cia officer. he served two years in federal prison. there are other people who leaked classified information to the press. for a variety of reasons. whistle-blowers or not. there are a lot of them who got much lighter sentences then chelsea manning did in august, 2013. private first class manning was sentenced to 35 years in her case. and that case was a very big deal, it was a huge amoun...

I believe the longest other sentence, the next-longest sentence is three and a half years. so the manning sentence is an order of magnitude greater than anyone else has ever received. of course her leak was, to be fair, to be fulsome of our discussions, it was qualitatively different than most other leaks. she was a bulk leaker, not "here's the secret" but "here's all the secrets." and it's clear the military and the prosecution was trying to throw the book at her and make an example out of her to deter this new kind of leak that she basically was the first to figure out could be done and did ...