Posted on 11/28/2010 5:07:33 PM PST by PhilosopherStone1000
An innocuous-looking memory stick, no longer than a couple of fingernails, came into the hands of a Guardian reporter earlier this year. The device is so small it will hang easily on a keyring. But its contents will send shockwaves through the world's chancelleries and deliver what one official described as "an epic blow" to US diplomacy.
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The US military believes it knows where the leak originated. A soldier, Bradley Manning, 22, has been held in solitary confinement for the last seven months and is facing a court martial in the new year. The former intelligence analyst is charged with unauthorised downloads of classified material while serving on an army base outside Baghdad. He is suspected of taking copies not only of the state department archive, but also of video of an Apache helicopter crew gunning down civilians in Baghdad, and hundreds of thousands of daily war logs from military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Real Hearings in the House is the only way we find out something.
...I would have sent a "Mitch Rapp" in already to discuss things with Julian Assange after the first threat of leaks.
That being said...there must be something else going on here....even as timid as pres. Zer0 is, he surely would have done something about Wikileaks before now if the leaks were really doing great damage. Hell...Homeland Security has seized websites for no more than file transfers...and they cannot sieze Wikileaks for breaches of U.S. security?....
...nope....don't make much sense to me.....there has to be something else going on....
Well, I think there are a lot of other explanations that are plausible, and yours could carry water. However, it is important to remember that the people who run Wikileaks are fanatically anti-American and anticapitalist. They think that the USA is the root of all the environmental and societal problems in the world today… to them, China doesn’t even rate.
That’s only because I haven’t had to live under Chinese regime. It reminds me of the satirical book “Protesting for Useful Idiots”. It’s pretty funny, and covers some interesting topics such as:
using children for maximum impact
best ways to compare Bush to Hitler
chance: should they rhyme or be true?
How to shut down your opponents when they start making sense
keeping the TV cameras away from the real wackos
plus: find out which SUVs can hold the most “no blood for oil” signs
(Also includes bonus “down with America” coloring book for kids!)
But it does have a red warning sticker on the front of the book that states WARNING: PROTESTING UNDER AN ACTUAL EVIL AND/OR REPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT MAY RESULT IN TORTURE, DISAPPEARANCE, OR DEATH.
The founders of the Wikileaks site have never had to live under actual evil or repressive government. They have no clue…
Nice "security."
Some 22 year old noobie aka "intel analyst" gains access to The Vault of Vaults? Was the access password, "PASSWORD"??
From top-to-bottom this entire fiasco sounds like BS.
Which gives this a whole nother twist altogether... Did Dumb0 let this happen just in order to taint the only viable primary threat to his 2012 run? Will he blame this all on State and make Hillary take the fall?
Were it not so serious, it would make for some fun tin-foil hat cogitating...
He added: “Information should be free. It belongs in the public domain
No doubt this traitor considers himself a hero. If found guilty, he should be executed as an example on general principles. Maybe that will teach his generation about the consequences of their actions. But, more than likely, they’ll put his picture on t-shirts—like Che.
Not too hard if the “security” is the same as it was in Stalag 17.
From Article 106A of the Uniform Code of Military Conduct (UCMJ)
A) (1) Any person subject to this chapter who, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicates, delivers, or transmits, or attempts to communicate, deliver, or transmit, to any entity described in paragraph (2), either directly or indirectly, any thing described in paragraph (3) shall be punished as a court-martial may direct, except that if the accused is found guilty of an offense that directly concerns (A) nuclear weaponry, military spacecraft or satellites, early warning systems, or other means of defense or retaliation against large scale attack, (B) war plans, (C) communications intelligence or cryptographic information, or (D) any other major weapons system or major element of defense strategy, the accused shall be punished by death or such other punishment as a court- martial may direct.
Here’s the question I have not seen asked anywhere. How in the hell did an unsupervised e-nothing doggie get access to State Dept. stuff? Heads should be falling up and down the chain but you know they’re not. They’re all covering their collective asses and hoping people will buy the message that this happened because the kid was a fag.
Y’all are falling for the bait. As one who has been on the inside, this is far more reaching than a faggot who got jilted. Too many safeguards, checkpoints and physical security layers unless those in the chain were also compicit.
Ask yourselves this question, if he did it himself, why has there not been any arrests for dereliction of duty for those who were asleep at the switch?
MSM loves whistleblowers.
I’ll bet he does consider himself a “hero” when you consider that his other “hero” is Rachel Madcow of PMSNBC fame.
I agree, it may very well be as you say… but keep in mind that the military does have very young people in positions to have access to a lot of stuff… stuff requiring responsibility. The military does indeed put young people in positions of responsibility.
As for security, I trace all this back to the Clinton White House, which probably did more to damage security at all levels than any other administration (or all other administrations combined up to this one) due to their handling of security.
If you have ever read the book “Unlimited Access” by Gary Aldrich (who was in charge of White House security and the vetting of security clearances for White House personnel) you will know exactly what I mean.
Bottom line, I can visualize exactly how some young idiot could get access to this material. As another poster stated above, you or I could have probably talked to the guy and figured out in just a few sentences just exactly who he was and what he was all about.
But… our current security mechanisms probably don’t allow that… that might be “prejudicial”, “judgmental”, or “discriminatory”.
She'll survive because BO could care less about this info being released. I'm sure he is having a good chuckle about this with Michelle, Holder, and Jarrett.
>> Real Hearings in the House is the only way we find out something. <<
Yep, and the “SIPRNet” system didn’t just appear out of the blue when Øbambi took office. It must have been approved and started quite some time ago — for example, when General Colon Piles was SecState or JCS Chief.
So, wouldn’t it be delicious if a House hearing should find a document showing that the General or his good buddy Armitage was a big SIPRNet fan!
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