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Four years ago, when PFC Bradley Manning was convicted at court-martial of leaking thousands of highly-classified documents to Wikileaks and got 35 years in prison for "his" trouble, some members of Congress fulminated that the 5' 2" soldier was a "traitor," worthy of being shot at sunrise.

We've come a long ways since then. You can't make his stuff up, folks.

By the time you read these words, "Chelsea" Manning, the most celebrated transsexual in military history, will walk out of the Leavenworth D.B. a free "man." He-she Manning remains in the Army while her lawyers appeal her conviction.

Our sources tell us Manning won't be drawing a paycheck, but will have full medical care, commissary and PX privileges, and use of base MWR (morale, welfare and recreation) facilities. The big bucks from the book and TV movie come later. It should be a hit, what with Manning's bizarre time behind bars.

"She" can titillate the public with her tales of coming out as a woman while locked up, detail her hormone treatments, and describe her failed suicide attempt. Then there's always the great moment when she learned Barack Hussein Obama - a graduate of "Man's Country" in Chicago - commuted her sentence to seven years. That's 20% of the stretch she was sentenced to.

A TERRIBLE DOUBLE-STANDARD OF "JUSTICE"

All this brings us to the latest gross injustice perpetrated on a male member of the military. We're referring to (see Related Stories Box below) the draconian prison term given former West Point cadet Jacob Whisenhunt, who got 21 years in the slammer because those paragons of virtue at the USMA sacrificed him on the alar of political correctness.

The ruination of the 20 year-old Maxwell, Nebraska native's life is the result of a policy by cowardly brass hats who consider any accusation as good as an express ticket to the D.B. We are reminded of a common saying in Vietnam. "Kill 'em all, and let God sort them out later."

Whisenhunt said, and we are inclined to believe he's telling the truth, the sex with a female classmate in a tent during bivouac was entirely "consensual." It is not unknown in today's Army for one to yell "rape" to prevent being punished for participating in an act expressly forbidden under the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice).

It's quite a sweet deal. Female cadet invites male classmate to slip into her tent for a quickie, then - realizing she could short-circuit her future at West Point - plays "victim" with a USMA leadership eager to overlook her transgressions as long as they get to burnish their statistics on "zero tolerance" to take heat off themselves from grandstanding politicians like Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York.

Manning will soon be a millionaire, or is that "millionairess?" Whisenhunt, meanwhile, can only hope and pray someday he will receive true justice, not the railroad job that was done on him in the shadows at the most hypocritical military academy in America.

At the time, it made sense. Concocting an "official" cover story to mask the unpleasant details of the death of beloved bandleader, Maj. Glenn Miller. The truth would have been extremely hard for World War II era Americans to accept and comprehend and might've played into German "propaganda" and disinformation at the time, i.e. that Miller died in the arms of a Paris prostitute.

He did not. Miller was a patriot and on a mission for Gen. Eisenhower that might have helped bring a quicker end to World War II. An elderly but alert retired officer on Gen. Omar Bradley's staff, Army Lt. Col. Hunton Downs, has spoken to MilitaryCorruption.com about the facts of the case from his home in Asheville, N.C.

This respected officer has spent 60 of his 90-plus years of life following the trail; gaining access to OSS/CIA files on Miller; U.S. and German documents long hidden away on the case; relentlessly chasing down leads; and now, the military investigator believes he has "solved the final mystery" of what really happened to Glenn Miller.

We agree, and while there are other researchers out there with differing conclusions (as you will see later on in this extra-length article), Downs comes the closest to "nailing down" the true facts by coming up with a very plausible explanation for what we now know to be a "cover-up" that has lasted since 1944.

"CRASH IN CHANNEL" STORY A "COVER-UP" FOR THE TRUTH

The heroic "myth" that Miller's plane went down in bad weather in the English Channel in December of that fateful year, was born of wartime necessity. The aircraft—a single-engine Norseman—was never found, and although numerous theories have been offered as to what really happened to Alton G. Miller, the epitome of Middle America and "musical magic" of that time, Downs has the most documented findings.

One of the first clues that the "official version" of Miller's death was wrong—dramatically portrayed by Jimmy Stewart in the great 1950's movie "The Glenn Miller Story"—was the MACR (Missing Air Crew Report) on file at Maxwell AFB in Alabama since the end of World War II.

Dipping into Scotland Yard, RAF records in England (the "Ansell Report") and The Imperial War Museum in London, as well as extremely valuable investigative documents discovered by the late Miller researcher Wilbur Wright, Downs discovered the "adjutant's signature" on the "official" form had been "falsified," and Miller's name had been "added to the passenger list" (different typewriters had been used).

"The falsifiers had even gotten destinations wrong, trying to fit in pre-conceived plans of what Supreme Headquarters (Gen. Eisenhower) claimed had taken place," Downs said.

GLENN MILLER WAS A PATRIOT - HIS LAST MISSION COST HIM HIS LIFE

But that wasn't all. His dogged research over the years led to an important find in documents stored at the RAF Museum in Croydon. A female driver named Joan Heath—remember, dear reader, Gen. Ike had a British subject (and alleged mistress) Kay Summersby driving his staff car—had reported in writing she had taken Maj. Miller in an Army sedan to an airstrip in France the night of Dec. 16-17, 1944.

Downs tells in his new book, "THE GLENN MILLER CONSPIRACY: THE NEVER-BEFORE-TOLD TRUE STORY OF HIS LIFE AND DEATH" (Global Book Publishers of Beverly Hills, Calif.) he believes the German-speaking Miller was carrying "peace feelers" from Gen. Eisenhower to German generals, reportedly eager to end the war and save their homeland from complete destruction.

It is important to recall that in July of 1944, an assassination attempt had already been made on Hitler. The German High Command knew full well that the Allies were going to win the war.

Down's investigation shows Miller was to be secretly flown in a small Bobcat two-motor aircraft from a French airfield near Versailles to German Army headquarters at Fichtenhein near Krefeld. The short-hop, pre-arranged flight was to be made through the Ruhr "flak zone" towards Gen. Von Rundstedt's command post.

MILLER CAPTURED BY GERMANS, BEATEN TO DEATH DUMPED ON DOORSTEP OF PARIS BROTHEL

Miller's mission, however, was revealed by a spy to the die-hard Nazis, who preferred to fight to the death. The band leader, at some point in the trip, was captured and brutally interrogated. Hating Miller ("Mueller," of German heritage) for his radio broadcasts in the German language to enemy forces urging them to "quit the war" and "surrender" to the Allies, chief Nazi propagandist Dr. Joseph Goebbels ordered the falsehood spread that Miller had been "found dead in a Paris brothel."

The story was only half true. The whorehouse, long a hangout for high-ranking Nazis during the German occupation, was indeed where Miller's battered and nude body was discovered, sprawled on the doorstep. But Downs says the major was left there by the enemy in an effort to smear the bandmaster's memory and score points in the all important propaganda war.

"Broderick Crawford, the Academy-Award winning movie actor, was a close friend and drinking buddy of Miller's," Downs told an MCC reporter. "He served as announcer for the band's radio broadcasts and live performances in England. Before the star of "ALL THE KING'S MEN" died, Crawford told Downs, during a booze binge in Paris that loosened his lips, that his hero, Glenn Miller, had "been on a mission for Ike" and been "killed in the effort."

Down's fascinating book details MP reports that a man meeting Miller's physical description had been found at the brothel location—Rue Pigalle—and a U.S. Army doctor (his name is in the book) signed Miller's death certificate. Allegedly, Maj. Alton G. Miller's body was in short order flown to Wright-Patterson Field in Dayton, Ohio and he was buried in a secret location.

There is so much more in the way of detail and documentation in "THE GLENN MILLER CONSPIRACY" that we cannot emphasize enough that this book is the quintessential volume of what actually happened in one of the last great mysteries of World War II. Anyone having any interest in the Miller story needs to read this book for themselves and draw their own conclusions.

ANOTHER AUTHOR CLAIMS MILLER DEAD IN SEPTEMBER 1944

While Col. Downs has assembled the most information on the case, including a superb "back section" of photographs and copies of never-before-seen documents, another author claims he helped mistakenly shoot down Glenn Miller in a small plane on Sept. 9, 1944, more than two months before the musical icon left England to travel to recently liberated Paris, France.

Clarence B. Wolfe, a World War II enlisted man, tells Susan Goodrich Griffin in "I KEPT MY WORD: THE PERSONAL PROMISE BETWEEN A WORLD WAR II ARMY PRIVATE AND HIS CAPTAIN ABOUT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO GLENN MILLER" that his "drunken" officer, the late Capt. Lawrence Foley, made him "promise never to reveal" the officer's belief he had mistakenly ordered the "shoot down" of Glenn Miller in a small unidentified aircraft in the fall of 1944.

Foley is now dead, and Wolfe, whom an MCC reporter interviewed by phone, feels he is released from his promise and has written his book to "clear the air" and tell his story while he's still alive to do so.

There's no doubt that Wolfe is sincere and believes what he says. But his slim volume—just 122 pages (available at AuthorHouse.com—copies can be ordered by calling toll-free 1-800-839-8640)—offers little in the way of actual proof.

ALLEGES HE HEARD TWO DAYS OF BROADCASTS ON ARMED FORCES NETWORK IN ENGLAND THAT MILLER KILLED

Wolfe swears he heard two days of broadcasts on AFN (Armed Forces Network) in England "confirming" Miller's death right after the alleged "shoot down." But no one at AFN can confirm the so-called broadcasts, and a search of STARS & STRIPES and British daily newspapers in this writer's personal collection of that date shows no such thing.

In fact, Miller was seen in public numerous times between Sept. 9 and mid-December. 1944 when he either crashed in the English Channel (official version) or was killed in Paris (more likely scenario). It would be hard to have a "double" traipse around portraying Miller, and the thinness of documentation Wolfe can point to, quite frankly makes his account hard to believe.

In fairness to the first-time author, an associate tells us Wolfe is "hard at work" on another book that may reveal more "details" of what the former anti-aircraft gunner and spotter says happened to Maj. Miller. The former Army enlisted man from Bloomington, Ind., hopes to travel to England for the 65th "anniversary" of Miller's death, which he contends took place on Sept. 9, 1944.

For updates on Wolfe's plans, go to www.9-9-44.com. Those preferring THE GLENN MILLER CONSPIRACY can purchase that 271-page soft cover book for $17.95 at Amazon.com or go directly to the publisher's homepage at www.bookpubintl.com.

Don't let Maj. Clarence Anderson be forgotten. Churches, you should hold this man up in prayer to our Lord. Veterans and service-members, our brothers and sisters in the American Legion, DAV, VFW and AMVETS, disseminate this story as widely as possible. The pen is mightier than the sword. Now, let’s use it!

If ever there was a case for tightening up the psychological testing of applicants for SEAL training, this is it.

Navy PO1 Gregory Kyle Seerden is innocent until proven guilty - at least in the eyes of the law - but it looks pretty grim for the Missouri man if he can't prove some of the images he sickeningly and stupidly recorded on video aren't him. The NCIS allegedly found at least 78 pornographic pictures on his cell phone, which was confiscated in the wake of a rape accusation by an unidentified Virginia Beach, Va, woman.

Investigators quickly expanded that probe when they seized the SEAL's cell phone and found very disturbing images on it. For example: in one scene, a man is shown ready to pounce on a sleeping little girl; in another, (barf bag warning, folks) the 12 year Navy vet is said to have made a video record of a dog having sex with an infant!

A BAD APPLE SPOILS THE BUNCH

The authorities might never have found out about the depraved images had it not been for the unidentified female accusing Seerden of raping her. The vast majority of SEALS are our nation's toughest warriors, but sadly, a few sickos sneak through the screening process.

If convicted of the rape and other sex-related crimes, the petty officer first class could spend the rest of his life behind bars. That may not be all that long, however, if some of the inmates at the Leavenworth DB are waiting for him in a "reception committee" in the prison's infamous shower room.

Be sure to check out our Related Stories below. We sadly have to link up two previous SEAL-sex charge stories from the last six months. They involve Chief Special Warfare Operator Stephen Varanko and Navy SEAL PO1 Andrew Krah. Please remember, dear reader, that leaves 99,5% of active-duty SEALS who deserve our honor and respect. Some of them are our best CI's (confidential informants).

Dan Rather is a despicable individual who is attempting to claim he was once a Marine, when the truth is ... he's just a damn liar.