Probably wore out his kneepads, along with several gerbils.
He’s a bag man. Used by forces larger than him.....get real
Oppressed minorities get all the goodies./s
It’s hard to believe his Background Investigation for a TS Clearance did not alert the military. He should never have been granted a security clearance. But someone in the Pentagon probably determined that it would be “discriminatory” to deny him a clearance even though he liked to wear women’s dresses.
He wasn’t put “in charge” of the documents, he only had access.
This question was already addressed. The Army was in DIRE need of bodies when Manning came along. The decision was made to keep him in as a direct consequence.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/28/bradley-manning-video-transcript-wikileaks
“It was a fact that in 2007 recruiting numbers were the lowest they had ever been. They were lowering recruitment standards like crazy. I mean, facial tattoos, too tall, too short, too fat, criminal record – it didn’t matter. They even upped the age limit. You could be 42 years old and still enlist for basic training. It was take everybody you could get. Keep hold of everybody you can get. Bradley Manning should never have cleared any of those hurdles to even get into the military. And then he is in and it is a colossal failure and everyone knows it.”
And he was a PFC. An E-3. How does a PFC get access to this kind of sensitive massive amounts of info?
Obviously, a “security clearance” doesn’t mean what it used to mean.
This traitorous faggot must be executed.
H*ll, given today’s mores he should be elected President as he has all the attributes necessary; he is a pervert traitor.
Homosexuality, regardless of what the queer-dominated APA says, is a mental illness. You can’t trust crazy people in sensitive positions with access to that kind of information.
If you have the right clearance and database access, which is simply a requirement for most jobs, you have access to all these records and more. It’s not a conspiracy. In fact, it’s entirely routine. Any Private working in these jobs will have access to this sort of thing. I worked in this line of work for many years, including Iraq and Afghanistan. There’s nothing unusual at all about his accesses.
In fact, Manning was more of a general analyst. The more specialized analysts of his same pay grade often have access to more sensitive pools of information.
It’s just how things are done now. Modern warfare is based on networked, collaborative information sharing. We have too much information that is classified, to the point that it is impossible to get anything done without ensuring relatively smooth access to vast amounts of data once you’re on the inside.
I cannot understand these crazy queers. If you can’t stand women,why would you want to be one?
Everybody in his chain of command that ignored his bizarre conduct. More importantly, whoever was running their computer network didn't have the permissions locked down correctly. His immediate chain of command didn't do anything about that, either.
There is no way a SPC4 needs diplomatic traffic, but it appears this person was given access to just about everything. A simple thing of account management on the part of the systems administrator should have eliminated that. Perhaps that administrator was ordered to loosen up the permissions.
I work for a large company that is technical in nature. There are huge amounts of data that I could easily obtain just by nature of the fact that it is a fairly non-trivial task to properly restrict access to information and still make it possible for people to do their jobs and be productive. The caveats are is that I’m not saying I have access to *everything* - just that I have access to an enormous amount. Secondly private industry and the military are obviously not the same thing and the security requirements are obviously different - but still at heart we’re still dealing with large organizations, with IT managers, with standard IT tools so I would expect more than just a little commonality.
Basically, it’s a hard problem to solve - especially when most of the top-secret policies and procedures were likely developed back in the George Smiley days of manila folders and those all-knowing file clerks in those novels. Now that everything is on an intranet with potentially unlimited copies of the same data - those policies and procedures probably don’t translate very well.