Was Wikileaks a CIA op gone rogue?

>John Young said he had published unredacted diplomatic cables on 1 September 2011 after obtaining an encrypted file, and that they remained online.
>Young, who founded Cryptome in 1996, added: “Since my publication on Cryptome.org of the unredacted diplomatic cables, no US law enforcement authority has notified me that this publication of the cables is illegal, consists or contributes to a crime in any way, nor have they asked for them to be removed.”

[most] likely is

>On July 12, 2007, a series of air-to-ground attacks were conducted by a team of two U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah, New Baghdad, during the Iraqi insurgency which followed the invasion of Iraq. On April 5, 2010, the attacks received worldwide coverage and controversy following the release of 39 minutes of gunsight footage by the Internet whistleblower website WikiLeaks. The footage was portrayed as classified, but the individual who leaked it, U.S. Army soldier Chelsea Manning, testified in 2013 that the video was not classified.
>The publication of the cables was the third in a series of U.S. classified document leaks distributed by WikiLeaks in 2010, following the Afghan War documents leak in July, and the Iraq War documents leak in October. Over 130,000 of the cables are unclassified, some 100,000 are labeled "confidential", around 15,000 have the higher classification "secret", and none are classified as "top secret" on the classification scale.

What was his crime really? Was he just too unpredictable to be left alone?

>What was his crime really?
He published dirty secrets of the US government. Snowden would be in the same crap if he didn't flee to Russia.

P78904
That was Bradly Manning, a thin gay guy that for some reason found himself in the military. Evidently he got teased a bit, and (methinks) that's the reason for the leak - to get back at the military. He trooned out later once it became popular and changed his name.

If this is "Collateral Murder" (video) that we are talking about, the helicopter gunship was under fire previously during the battle. The guys in the helicopter mistook the guy in the van with his long, black camera for a guy with an RPG - an obvious threat to a helicopter.

Many of the combatitants in that conflict did not have uniforms on, so it was totally possible the guy really did have an RPG yet be in plain clothes. In a moment like that, do you wait and see if you get blown out of the sky and die a burning death or do you fire first? They fired, it looked bad, and everyone went nuts about the leak. That's war - easy to judge from the safety of your chair. Manning did some time if I remember right and became some sort of anti-war hero briefly. I've always thought his intentions were less then honest and more self-serving.

>CIA op gone rogue?
yes