Posted on 01/02/2012 8:14:12 AM PST by jmaroneps37
Contrary to what Ron Paul says, Bradley Manning is neither a hero nor a patriot. He is a traitor who has placed our fighting men and women in great danger. He is also deeply disaffected and confused homosexual who has serious misogynistic tendencies. He can’t stand women. The Army’s folder of reports about his conduct proves it.
A source quoted in militarycorruption.com who has attended his treason trial in Fort Meade Maryland, says Manning thinks of himself as a woman in a man’s body, and even created his own female persona he calls Breanna Manning.
Moreover he is given to fits of hysteria and is prone to violence toward female supervisors. The official records include a description of Manning having punched his female supervisor in the face.
In spite of his flighty and unacceptable conduct the army’s poster boy for ending Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was put in charge of 700,000 sensitive and secret files pertaining to our military’s plans in Afghanistan and other theaters of war. How did this happen?
Who looked at this maladjusted little twerp and said, “Oh boy THIS is guy America should trust her secrets to!”?
During the time Manning was in charge of America’s secrets, he sent up one red flag after another. Jihrleah Showman the female supervisor Manning punched recognized he was unstable and therefore untrustworthy early in their professional relationship.
She has testified to specifically explaining what she was seeing in Manning’s irrational conduct to her superior Sgt. First Class Paul Adkins and Adkins’ seeming indifference to her concerns. Now Adkins has taken the 5th Amendment when questioned under oath about why he left Manning in place with his hands on our future.
These facts raise several questions about Adkins and the unit Manning was working in…
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I cannot understand these crazy queers. If you can’t stand women,why would you want to be one?
And they should be giving, at least, annual polygraphs.
Remember that all the traitors during the Kim Philby days in Great Britain (with the exception of Philby himself) were gay boys. They apparently live for treason. Probably one of the main reasons they were excluded from serving in the military.
Some earlier posts hit it on the head. Homosexuality is a mental illness. It just is.
“Bush inherited a badly screwed up system from clinton, and didn’t do much to fix it”
Sheesh its NEVER Dubya’s fault huh? It was not Bubba Clinton who initiated the dumbing down of our armed forces to fill the ranks. That was a Bush Admin directive.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/17/opinion/17Greenhill.html?_r=1
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-10-09-army-recruiting_x.htm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89702118
You can no longer deny a TSC clearance to someone on account of sexual orientation. It’s been that way for at least 10-15 years. You have no idea the power the “Gay Mafia” now has in the federal government, including the military. It’s approaching the level of academia! (I imagine with the advent of this administration it feels particularly empowered!) The need for “special sensitivity” has spread to large DOD contractors and starting to be forced onto medium & small contractors.
If you don’t know the job he held prior to the incident, you really have no business saying whether he needed access or not.
Because you don’t know.
Likely TS - TS data is more controlled, so it would be more difficult to get part and parcel access to huge amounts. Just because it came from a Secret venue doesn’t discount the possibility/probability he had a TS. Moot points anyway - even folks who have to take polygraphs can end up on the dirty end of the Treason stick because investigations are carried out by people and much of the data collected comes from other people who may either not know anything about the real person or may know, but consider the person a harmless friend and therefore decline to offer any relevant data. Barring a criminal record or other official data, it’s a hit/miss proposition. Then theres Politicians who have histories that would deny a regular citizen from getting any level clearance but they get access because the People elected them. With what is known/not known about Obam, he could probably never get a clearance outside political positions, yet there he is; privy to the highest level secrets we have.
Manning is the disaster that has been years in the making!
I thought it was 10-15 years ago which I put in a earlier post, but its more like 20-25. (I had to look it up!)
But-—But—Highly educated and brilliantly learned Pschychiatrists, practitioners of the Pseudo-science of Psychiatry have taken it off the list of Mental Illness.
Are you trying to insinuate that these highly paid scholars of the inner workings of the minds of mortals could be wrong?
One would think that these professionals who can cure Pedophiles of their preferences could never be wrong-—Oh wait, they can’t cure pedophiles , can they? They don’t have much luck with Trans-Genders either —do they?
Maybe they just believe that if anything they cannot cure is called “Normal” then it is normal.Won’not be long before pedophilia and Trans gender are taken off their list too.
A substantial number of early reports said that his job involved intelligence in Afghanistan. That may not have been true, of course. But what kind of a job would involve access to ALL the secret State Department files all over the world.
That kind of job would be centered in the U.S. at high levels in the CIA or other security HQs, not given to a Corporal in Afghanistan.
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.
This is one of those issues where the amount of idiocy by the media/bloggers that have no concept of how the classified world works is beyond belief.
People have this weird idea (mainly from movies) that ALL classified material is restricted to an elite handful of people, and to look at it you have to go through five retina scans, two fingerprint readers, etc. to some sort of vault 1,000 feet underground.
I think there are something like 2 Million people with SECRET clearances; last I read it was something like a million with TS?
Manning wasn't "in charge" of anything. He just had database access.
Nobody I know was surprised by the Manning case; they were just surprised it hadn't happened yet.
I had SIPRNET access domestically at the time Manning had it in Iraq. At the time it was essentially a giant, classified internet where you can wander around and download whatever you want without supervision (some sites had their own permissions, of course.) And I could have burned a CD a day and drove off the base with it every day for a year without anyone noticing.
Nope. It was classified at a SECRET level, and placed on the SIPRNET, which can have SECRET level info.
After 9/11 there was a big push to facilitate intelligence-sharing across different US agencies, to make sure everyone had access to all available infomation.
Clinton used up and failed to replace a lot of key military supplies. And he drove a lot of good officers and men out of the military.
So Bush inherited an expensive mess. A lot of his defense spending was devoted to replacing what clinton used up.
I’m not saying that Bush was without blame. It would have been better to let the size of our forces drop than to hire a bunch of incompetents and trouble-makers.
Actually, there are circumstances when trouble-makers can be put to good use. The French Foreign Legion comes to mind. But you need to abandon politically correct training and assignments to do that, and Bush was only too willing to observe political correctness.
“The restrictions regarding “lifestyle - meaning sexual orientation” was quietly dropped by Admiral Bobby Inman”
Irrelevant. As a member of the military he wouldn’t have been asked those questions in the first place. DADT and his wacked out behavior that was noted throughout his military service should have been enough to get him processed out. They weren’t as the Army was in need of warm bodies.
I had a secret clearance which got me a position in a major relay communications center in Panama while in the Army. I don't know to what extent the military goes to do any background investigations but I suspect none since I had guys working for me who were given a choice by their judge to either go to jail or volunteer for the military.
One weekend I was the E-5 in charge of the center while my SSGT was off. I noticed a red light on one of the incoming message banks from a station on the Atlantic side of the canal. The red light indicated that a Top Secret Flash message was coming in over the teletype bank, which was very irregular since the particular circuit the station sending the message was using was not rated for Top Secret message traffic.
What made it even worse, I didn't have TS clearance to even handle the message myself. I was then required to contact my NCO due to the security breach as well as the station commanding officer and get them on site ASAP. Because the message was still in teletype tape form, I never even got to read what it was all about.........LOL!
The following morning, Monday, I had to go to the CO and file a report and by the end of the day I had a brand new Top Secret security clearance......LOL!
“It would have been better to let the size of our forces drop than to hire a bunch of incompetents and trouble-makers.”
How practical would that have been with the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan then in full swing from 03 till now??? The point of this thread is that Manning was let in and stayed in because of a shortage of troops. This could have been avoided if Dubya and Rumsfield had called for an increase in the size of the military. They did not preferring to believe that our operations in Iraq and Afghanistan could be done with a tiny footprint. In fact they actively fought against increasing the size of the Army and the Marines until Rumsfield’s firing in 06!
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/dec/20/nation/na-troops20
Bush was wrong and should be held accountable for that mistake.
Well, I was in the military a long time ago, and put in some time as a classified documents clerk at a missile test range in New Mexico. That was when JFK was President.
Need to know was the basic principle. I cannot imagine giving millions of people that kind of access. Obviously it’s time to push the reset button.
If you read “That Kind of War” it becomes evident that the military leadership going into the Korean War was in very bad shape, and needed a makeover. That happens, from time to time. A war comes along, and the military is simply not prepared for it.
Or, in our present case, the military has been subjected to politically correct mandates for decades, and has knuckled under to them. That needs to be fixed, God knows how.
Even back in the 60s, there were mess-ups. I was at the bottom of the totem pole, out in the desert, and I used to get some excess classified documents having nothing to do with our work, simply because it was easier to pass them down than to burn them. In fact, I got a tech manual on the Claymore Mine before it had been used in Vietnam, when its existence was still Top Secret. I burned the manual in my 55 gallon oil drum, and did not mention it to anyone until long afterward, when it was no longer posssibly a secret from anyone. But that was a matter of SNAFU, not idiotic official policy.
Good analysis, thanks. Also your comment: “Barring a criminal record or other official data, it’s a hit/miss proposition.” is right on the money, especially with Manning. I mean, what was he, 18 when they did the clearance process? Barring a criminal background, his background check probably sailed right through; as I’ve said to friends, it’s more difficult (or shall we say, more involved) for an older adult to get clearances because there’s a longer trail of data to peruse.
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