Bradley Manning wants to become a female

with the ridiculously insensitive treatment the army gives and has given to transgender individuals it's a pretty solid argument that it affected her mental state.

I don't disagree with that, but that doesn't normally cause someone to potentially place millions of people in danger. Nothing in there was read before it was leaked; what would have happened if something EXTREMELY important was in there? Nuclear launch codes wouldn't ever be stored in something like that, but base schematics, drill schedules, complaint reports that happen to include mention of faulty facilities on bases, any number of documents that could have been used against us could have been in there. It wasn't directly aiding the enemy, I'm sure he/she wasn't even thinking that far ahead, but it was still incredibly stupid, and stupidity shouldn't be rewarded with reduced sentencing.