I said I Took the oath twice, that means yes, 6 years in the Navy and 3 in the army. If he was a civilian doing an intel job he wouldn't be a traitor, but because he was wearing the uniform and took the oath, and his actions and his words (before leaking the information and after) he very much is one. He didn't like the army and wanted revenge, once again as per his words.
"The Biggest Failing of the army was letting him Deploy, and attempt to do his job.
Meh, I contend the biggest fail on behalf of the Army was putting a private, especially one with a record like Mannings', in charge of any sensitive information at all."
Manning wasn't in charge of anything, He just had access to. His rank isn't important there, low ranking people have access to all sorts of stuff all the time. but otherwise you said the same thing I did, He was obviously a shitty soldier with reliability problems, usually guys like that got their weapon taken from them and sent to kuwait. His First 3 immediate supervisors should be censured.