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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You and I could not be more in agreement. The problem is, when Jane Fonda went over to North Vietnam and was never prosecuted for treason, treason for the most part an un-prosecutable crime. It set the bar so high that it can’t be overcome.
The last person prosecuted and convicted of treason was Tomoya Kawakita who was convicted in 1952 of treason but was released by John F. Kennedy and sent back to Japan. (I know most people think it was the Rosenbergs were convicted of treason, but they weren’t convicted of treason-they were convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917)
I am almost 100% certain that this guy will never be charged with, or convicted of treason.
So who wanted this stuff leaked?
Thanks for your reply.
I spent 30 years in IT much of it in Systems Programming and security. As I said I don’t see how he obtained this info unless someone gave it to him.
Color me stupid.
“Never let a crisis go to waste.”
If none exists, create a crisis.
I guess that the problem I see may not be with systems or even their inherent security… the problem may very well be who decides what documents are stored on the system with a given security set up, and/or who how or why authorizes who has access to that system.
With your background, you certainly understand that you can design a system with the highest degree of security possible, but if someone gets the password out (or actually writes it on a piece of paper and tapes it about the system console) your anchor chain that supposed to hold an aircraft carrier in place against the current cannot hold a floating leaf in place.
As another poster opined, this could be standard intelligence agency operations of compromise and blackmail. An age-old standard that probably still works just as well today as it did 500 years ago.
Of course, liberals would probably say that if we threw all of our moral values out the door, then that would be great because nobody could ever get blackmailed…
How about the White House? Followed by the Democratic Party? Behind them, liberals? The Chinese probably care less…
Of course, I’m being facetious… this is such a damn mess but I feel that I have to find humor somewhere in this room to start ripping my hair out, however much I have left…
If, IF, the new House Pubbies launch investigations they will eventually point to sorass. Probably won’t be easy, he’s got the bucks to cloud the trail to some level.
because it's probably a DOS based system, heck it's probably run by the same IT people that run medical records in hospitals. You know the type. Get a program and keep layering platforms and running around trying to get a system to just limp along and need "fixing" to justify jobs.
This homosexual traitor is a fall guy. But I'd really like to see him tried, convicted and executed with the same alacrity that the Omaha bomber was given.
Bingo.
EQUALITY
@ the house
@ the classroom
@ the workplace
@ the battlefield
@ the solitary confinement cell
@ the firing squad
@ the burial site
@ the place called hell.
Yeah, dude, you’re equal. Equal to a pile of crap.
Follow the money. This has Soros written all over it.
Holder hasn’t said a word. Obama hasn’t said a word. This whole episode was designed to throw another log on the fire.
This is Alinsky tactics.
Shoot the paper leaking son of a b*tch!
Military has affirmative action IT dudes.
And of course the Guardian felt compelled to disseminate this information.
The story was that he was a network admin which gives him a lot of access.
“...it’s just humongous computer systems holding enormous amounts of data that thousands or tens of thousands of people have access to to varying degrees. In the process by which people are granted access is completely worthless and full of holes.”
I think you’ve got a good point. I’m no hacker but I can work a lot of computer stuff. Back in the early 80’s (pre-Windows) I worked for a large soft drink company. They had a big main-frame accessible via modems to salesmen around the country (world?). Salesman asked me for an array of sales of new product, by size and container (glass plastic). They told him they couldn’t do that. He pressured me and I kept going back between other duties and got it just as you say: it’s a large system, just kept reformulating the question until I got the array he wanted.
LOL, I have to admit, I solve a lot of problems I don’t understand in just that fashion...
We are all monkeys with typewriters. Or keyboards...
Are you aware of how many people have access to medical records despite your “privacy” if you file a lawsuit? The people in the medical records department of the hospital or doctor’s office, the company that provides medical records and every lawyer and staff member of any counsel on the case?
Yes...I work in Radiology Information Services, so I am QUITE cognizant of that...:)
Now, multiply that by tens of thousands with the government running it...
Yes and to quote J Alfred Prufrock: “... in short I am afraid.”
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