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Greg Mitchell writes Pressing Issues, a personal blog at gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com about politics and culture. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “What Manning Revealed”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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2013–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2013

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Why HN links it

HN readers cite Greg Mitchell's post on Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks as a source for what the leaks revealed. The one comment linking it is a neutral citation, not a judgement of the writing.

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A blog about media, politics, music, film, culture, by Greg Mitchell.

Most-linked posts?

  1. What Manning Revealed
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. "Manning's blanket leaks provided no new major revelations" This is simply not true. Sorry for the biased sources, but they were the only ones who made these kinds of compilations. http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=10... http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more/what-did-wikileaks-... http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2013/06/as-debate-con...

    Comment linking /2013/06/as-debate-continues-what-manning.html

    on “The free Web program that got Bradley Manning convicted of computer fraud”
  2. Submitted What Manning Revealed as a story · 116 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Inside a Mound in Hiroshima as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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