[El Gato]

For what reason did he work with the CIA, or maybe I should ask why did the CIA work with him?Supposedly to work with the Mujaheddin in Afghanistan and Pakistan against the Soviets. But that really doesn't wash. He only knows parts of the Koran in Arabic, as many Muslims do as Catholics once knew parts of the bible and the litergy in Latin. He spoke some dialect of Indonesian, but doesn't speak Farsi/Dari or Pashto or any of other languages of the region. Nor would he relate to them culturally.

I'm not buying BHO as CIA asset or officer.

KGB or GRU, maybe, but they wouldn't want someone who was all wee-weed up all the time, although they would take what they could get.

[TXnMA]

"He spoke some dialect of Indonesian, but doesn't speak Farsi/Dari or Pashto or any of other languages of the region. Nor would he relate to them culturally."

IMHO, that is the biggest indication that Manning may have bought into some bunk that he was fed or that he is doing a disinfo job himself: Øbozo would have had zero or negative value as a contact with Al Queida against the Russians -- as claimed...