Right. I have always had trouble considering Manning or much of the Wikileaks project for that matter to be actual "whistleblowing". Whistleblowers have historically been people who have actual knowledge of wrongdoing going public with the proof of it. If Manning had done this or if Wikileaks had been encouraging REAL whistleblowers to come forward and use the site as a means of putting their information out there, I'd be applauding.

Grabbing everything you can and making it public with no discernment between that which is legitimately secret that which is merely embarrassing and that which is criminal does not fit the bill in my opinion. It is far more in the vein of the belief that nothing should ever be secret which is simply not the same as whistleblowing.