Posted on 06/15/2010 6:41:34 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
In the old days, people who wanted to leak confidential national-security documents had to find an interested journalist and hope his publisher would go with the story. This often came after journalistic soul-searching on the balance between national security and the public's right to know.
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How quaint. Now leakers can post documents directly and anonymously on a website called WikiLeaks, which brags that its system hasn't yet been traced. Based on recent WikiLeaks by a young, disaffected U.S. soldier, even those of us who cheer disclosure need to think twice about what technology now allows.
Spc. Bradley Manning, a 22-year-old U.S. Army intelligence analyst, allegedly downloaded confidential material from his base in Iraq. It included a video showing a 2007 U.S. helicopter strike in Iraq that killed possible insurgents but also two Reuters journalists. WikiLeaks posted the material in April. Spc. Manning was caught because he bragged about his leaks in emails to a former hacker, Adrian Lamo, asking him, "If you had unprecedented access to classified networks 14 hours a day, seven days a week for eight-plus months, what would you do?" Mr. Lamo reported him to the FBI.they still give out purple hearts. do they still have firing squads?
So there is an up side to this story.
Short rope, tall tree. Be done with the traitor.
/johnny
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