How is it that a 22 year old private is called an “intelligence analyst” Really? With what kind of training, screening, background. This type of position is generally NOT for a private and is officer grade, for starters.
Second, a quote from the leftist guardian: “The Guardian’s Nick Davies brokered an agreement with Assange to hand over in advance two further sets of military field reports on Iraq and Afghanistan so professional journalists could analyse them.” Professional “journalists” in whose employment? Perhaps foreign intelligence entities?
Finally, the guardian says they have redacted portions to protect individuals is ludicrous at best, since WikiLeaks site has redacted nothing. Frees the guardian from any moral responsibility for a death caused jointly by them.
Everbody and his brother has a SECRET clearance and once you're on SIPR, you've got a giant SIPR Google equivalent to go nosing around to what you want.
Collectively the military is generating SO much intelligence if only officers looked at it or processed it, the whole thing would grind to a complete halt.
That it was possible for Manning to do this with the previous leaks and the diplomatic cables is absolutely no surprise to me (maybe a bit surprised that so much State Dept Stuff was on SIPR).
As usual, the people with the conspiracy theories have no idea of what they're talking about.