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Originally Posted by markksman
Don’t have any information nor do I know the relevant laws but would it be the difference of just being handed the documents versus working with whomever on planning on how to take the documents.
Yes, and, as we now know, it's conspiracy (with Manning) to commit computer intrusion by breaking the password, i.e. document theft. And it's five years max if convicted, and the idiot's locked himself up for seven years to avoid it. (Well, that and the rape case in Sweden.) I suppose he may fear that the US could bring more charges later.
Anyway, first he's got to go to Southwark Crown Court for sentence on the bail-jumping charge. District Judge Snow, convicting him, called him 'a narcissist who cannot see beyond his own selfish interest.'