Comparing Two Leakers - NYTimes.com Re "The Alarming Age of Surveillance" (editorial, June 12): I agree that Edward J. Snowden's disclosures "do not amount to treason." But I disagree with your description of Pfc. Bradley Manning as reckless and seemingly not caring about the documents he was exposing. Private Manning, who is charged with giving documents to WikiLeaks, testified at length on the moral reasons for his disclosure of each set of documents: the collateral murder video, the Iraq and Afghan war logs, and the State Department cables. He said he did so in the hope that Americans would debate the way they fought wars and carried out a hypocritical diplomacy. He could have disclosed hundreds of thousands if not millions more documents, but he chose particular sets of documents. The Manning documents disclosed conduct that should be investigated as war crimes, but no investigations have ensued. I think Mr. Snowden is getting more support than Private Manning from The Times and others because his revelations concern a surveillance program carried out on us and not the underlying crimes we may be committing on others. That seems to be a message that many Americans don't want to hear. The writer, president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights, is an attorney for Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.