Flutterby™! : Impact of Manning leaks

Bradley Manning leak did not result in deaths by enemy forces, court hears: Counter-intelligence officer who investigated WikiLeaks impact undermines argument that Manning leak put lives at risk:

Brigadier general Robert Carr, a senior counter-intelligence officer who headed the Information Review Task Force that investigated the impact of WikiLeaks disclosures on behalf of the Defense Department, told a court at Fort Meade, Maryland, that they had uncovered no specific examples of anyone who had lost his or her life in reprisals that followed the publication of the disclosures on the internet. "I don't have a specific example," he said.

I don't know how much lasting good the leak has done, but I think it's easy to argue that without the leak we wouldn't have seen the Arab Spring uprisings, or US drawdowns in Iraq, both of which seem like good things.