[Robwin]

WTH? This guy Manning is a PFC. How did he get access to so much secret material? Either no one is minding the store or something else might be going on.

[Past Your Eyes]

My thoughts exactly.

[Reily]

His MOS was Intelligence Analyst so of course he sees Top Secret Codeword material. Access has to do with job not with rank. He may have not been a senior analyst, meaning one who makes the call about what the data means. But he probably was supposed to write up and make it presentable to the “decision makers”.

[dogcaller]

Read recently that over a million people in the U.S. have high level security clearances for one reason or another...guess a security clearance is a concept just as dumbed down as everything else these days.