a slew of charges including aiding the enemy if convicted he could face life behind bars meanwhile wiki leaks at or an editor in chief julian assange is fighting his extradition so when is a whistleblower a hero and when is he a criminal and with the man in case underway what is the future of whistleblowing in the federal government case madara is the author of this book the passion of bradley manning he joined me earlier tonight from our studio in new york and i asked him as whistleblowing being criminalized in the us. yes it is once again as we see in the case of bradley manning but i think the case of bradley manning will set a familiar historical pattern where whistleblowers are first. criminalized but then later seen as heroes this happened with dead ellsberg the sap that was karen silkwood that happened to a great many other patriotic whistleblowers in our history and what is happening now we mentioned a little earlier that the obama administration has been the most aggressive...