President Obama speaks on Manning and the rule of law

President Obama recently pre-judged Private Manning's guilt in his release through WikiLeaks of classified US documents, in comments to a group protesting the whistleblower's treatment. He also seeks to suggest that Manning's act was more severe than Daniel Ellsberg's (above) release of the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, even though those documents had a higher "Top Secret" clearance. And, regrettably, Obama's declaration that we are a nation of laws seems to disregard the fact that our laws are selectively applied and frequently do not apply to the elites of our political and business power brokers.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/04/23/manning?utm