An undated photo of Army Spc. Bradley Manning
Transexual? impossible. How would the person get in the military.
Did I read that he is 22 (or was it 24) years old?
I want to know who his SUPERVISOR is............................
Check out the FB page on this article:
http://gawker.com/5571388/was-wikileaker-bradley-manning-betrayed-by-his-queer-identity
An undated photo of Army Spc. Bradley Manning
Whatever. He should be tried for treason and if found guilty, shot.
Did the source mysteriously end with Bush's Presidency? Or, is this a clearly political effort designed to blame Bush and leave Obama unscathed? And, why hasn't the mainstream media noticed this time aspect that is right in front of their pinched faces?
John/ Billybob
The owner of Wikileaks, however, telegraphed HIS agenda the other day with the comment that there is so much stuff that it's going to take a long time to go through it, but he's SURE there are going to be some war crimes mentioned. THAT'S what the left is so excited about. They have been salivating at the opportunity to 'get' George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, and they think this may be it. It's interesting, also, don't you think, that all of this material only seems to cover the Afghanistan War up to the point where Obama was sworn in, but covers nothing after that?
My question is: is it normal to give this level of access to somebody 5 minutes out of boot camp?
There was a bit about him in the WSJ this morning. He is from a small town in the Midwest and was always somewhat of an outsider. His parents are divorced and he lived with his mother. The guy is not “transgendered” - he is, however, very short and small and was apparently very self-conscious about this. He held a few nothing jobs (pizza guy, etc.) and then went into the army. He was in Iraq, during which time he got demoted for some unspecified offense and seems to have a grudge against the Army for this.
and who is his supervisor?
A traitor.
Not that your questions aren’t valid and important...
He is from Potomac, Maryland, which, all in all, I consider to be a hotbed of elitist squish-heads.
An earlier article said that he was reduced from Spec5 to PFC for some unspecified behavioral problem.
The gist of the article was that this guy has apparently been a chip-on-your-shoulder loser since he was in kindergarten.
Why he was given a top secret clearance, and allowed to keep it after his demotion, is beyond me. I’d like to know who the hell approved his clearance, and who approved his keeping it after the demotion.
Passing it on my FRiends.. I posted this on the Breaking News bar because I thought it was very relevent and more news on this matter is breaking everyday. The more we know about PFC Manning the more we will understand how and why the matter is being dealt with.... PFC Manning has some interesting supporters out there raising funds for his defense... The purpose of this thread is not so much to discuss the facts of the case.. there are plenty of other threads for that... But rather I am interested in knowing WHO this guy or gal is which could explain the motive for his/her actions.
Future US Senator from NY or CA
Bradley Manning, suspected source of Wikileaks documents, raged on his Facebook page.....
Bradley Manning, the prime suspect in the leaking of the Afghan war files, raged against his US Army employers and “society at large” on his Facebook page in the days before he allegedly downloaded thousands of secret memos, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.
The US Army intelligence analyst, who is half British and went to school in Wales, appeared to sink into depression after a relationship break-up, saying he didn’t “have anything left” and was “beyond frustrated”.
In an apparent swipe at the army, he also wrote: “Bradley Manning is not a piece of equipment,” and quoted a joke about “military intelligence” being an oxymoron.
Mr Manning, 22, who is currently awaiting court martial, is suspected of leaking more than 90,000 secret military documents to the Wikileaks website in a security breach which US officials claim has endangered the lives of serving soldiers and Afghan informers.
Supporters claim the war logs leak exposed civilian deaths in Afghanistan which had been covered up by the military, and Mr Manning’s family, who live in Pembrokeshire, said he had “done the right thing”.
The Pentagon, which is investigating the source of the leak, is expected to study Mr Manning’s background to ascertain if they missed any warnings when he applied to join the US Army. The postings on his Facebook page are also likely to form part of the inquiry.
Mr Manning, who is openly homosexual, began his gloomy postings on January 12, saying: “Bradley Manning didn’t want this fight. Too much to lose, too fast.”
At the beginning of May, when he was serving at a US military base near Baghdad, he changed his status to: “Bradley Manning is now left with the sinking feeling that he doesn’t have anything left.”
Five days later he said he was “livid” after being “lectured by ex-boyfriend”, then later the same day said he was “not a piece of equipment” and was “beyond frustrated with people and society at large”.
His tagline on his personal page reads: “Take me for who I am, or face the consequences!”
Mr Manning was arrested at the end of May on suspicion of leaking a video of a US helicopter attack, and quickly became the main suspect when the Afghan war documents were leaked earlier this week.
His uncle, Kevin Fox, said the soldier’s arrest and imprisonment in a military jail had taken its toll on his mother Susan, who lives in Haverfordwest.
“She hasn’t been well,” he said, adding that if Mr Manning had leaked the documents: “I think the boy did the right thing.”
Another close relative, who asked not to be named, said: “His mum didn’t know anything about what he was doing and it’s come as a big shock. She’s very upset.”
Susan Manning, 56, moved to the US in 1979 after marrying Bradley’s American father Brian Manning, a former serviceman who was based at the Cawdor Barracks in Brawdy, near Haverfordwest.
Bradley Manning was born in Oklahoma but the couple divorced in 2001 and Mrs Manning moved back to Wales with her son, who sat his GCSEs at the Tasker Milward secondary school in Haverfordwest.
Joseph Staples, Mr Manning’s uncle by marriage, said: “It’s one of those Catch 22 situations, because freedom of speech is great but if you do something that endangers other people’s lives then I can understand why you’re going to get flattened by the American military.
“Some people are saying that Bradley was a trouble-maker but he was anything but. He was just an introverted kid who loved computers and was fired up politically.”
Scott Lewis, a former classmate, said: “He was a bit hot-headed. If there was something he didn’t agree with, he spoke up about it.”
Other school contemporaries recalled him as a computer “nerd” who had a difficult relationship with his father.
Jenna Morris, a 23-year-old sales manager who went on holiday to Disney World in Florida with Bradley and his cousins, said: “He was a quiet lad and he’d had a tough upbringing.
“His parents had an acrimonious divorce. He didn’t get on well with his dad; they had quite a volatile relationship. His dad was very strict and shouted at him a lot.
“He had a tough time when he came back here with his mum because moving to another country after a break-up was hard. He was quite a loner and he didn’t really have a lot of friends. He had quite a bit of trouble at school and was picked on, but he didn’t care.”
James Kirkpatrick, who became friendly with him through their shared interest in computers, said: “I last contacted him about six months ago. He didn’t mention anything about what was happening, but at the same time he did seem a bit secretive, he was being a bit paranoid about what we spoke about on the net.
“He wouldn’t mention anything about what he was doing in the army and what he thought of it.”
Pictures on Mr Manning’s Facebook page include photos of him on school trips during his time in Wales and at a gay rights rally, where he is holding up a placard demanding equality on “the battlefield”.
Yesterday Mr Manning, who is reportedly on suicide watch, was transferred from a military jail in Kuwait to a prison in Washington DC, as the Pentagon called in the FBI to assist in the hunt for the source of the leak.
Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the US military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the leakers “might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family” because, he said, the leaked documents included the names of Afghan informants.
There is zero doubt in my mind that Bradley Manning was born a female. Look at the face, and the fact that “Bradley” is 5’2” tall which is in the normal range for females, and would be considered in the midget range for males.
This is a transexual who got into the military due to DADT. I don’t care about gays in the military but I think we need HONESTY, we need to know whether people are gays or not and this is one of the problems here. No one asked, but this is definitely a FEMALE. Bradley probably isn’t even her real name.