U.S. Army analyst arrested for alleged leak of video, documents to Wikileaks

The Hill ^ | June 7, 2010 | Gautham Nagesh

[JenB]

My brother trained with this guy at Ft Huachuca - same MOS, my brother’s in Iraq right now and posted this story on his Facebook page yesterday saying how disgusted he was with this scumbag.

[KC Burke]

ping

[a fool in paradise]

I never saw Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 but from what I gather, he’d been counting on “scooping” the Bush re-election effort with some similar footage of abuse with different participants but the Abu Ghraib media coverage (of a criminal PROSECUTION which was already long underway) beat him to the punch.

[VeniVidiVici]

Put him against the wall and send a 147gr 7.62mm NATO round down range and into his forehead.

Then hang him.

[DCBryan1]

What was he? 98B? 98E?

[JenB]

E I think but I’m not sure. Whatever it was his training there has served him well and although he’s looking forward to getting home this summer he’s been proud of what he’s doing over there.

[LibLieSlayer]

Yeah buddy.

LLS

[FrogMom]

Let me get this straight. The CRIMINAL turned in the traitor as TOOOO traitorish?

Thanks for the ping, KC. BTW, they are almost done with those barracks.

[KC Burke]

I wish I had picked up those buildings. Could have visited more.

As it turned out we got projects at Sill, Ft Lewis and Leonard Wood. I am in charge of Leonard Wood. May get more work there as the year progresses.

Say hi to your hubby for me and let us know what local SV gossip says on this.

[ColdSteelTalon]

Anyone who purposely leaks top-secret information which jeopardizes our national security should spend the rest of their lives in prison. And if any Americans or our allies get killed because of the leak, the leaker should be shot by a firing squad or hung by the neck until dead.

[ColdSteelTalon]

I was a specialist in the Army and had access to all kinds of Top-Secret info. If you have the clearance and in my case worked in a communications center, you will be exposed to it.

This is a clear case of a COMSEC failure for sure though.

[jazusamo]

I couldn’t agree more. It’s time to end this BS of military people leaking classified info to make a political statement. Fry ‘em.

[FrogMom]

Thanks and will do!

[conimbricenses]

250,000 secret or higher docs leaked?

FWIW, "secret" documents out of the US Government bureaucracy are a dime a dozen and 99% of them are no more sensitive than a dry cleaning receipt for some high-ranking state department flunky.

They classify anything and everything in government these days precisely because they can, and they require security clearances for all manner of jobs that have little or nothing to do with any real issue of national security.

To put it another way, there are people who work at the Census Bureau that are required to have a "security clearance" for their job. Same with the Commerce Department, just about anything involved in international trade or economic numbers crunching (wouldn't want the masses to know that the government fudges economic indicators to make it look like the economy is doing better than it is, would we?). They even require a clearance for people who work in the travel offices that make hotel and rental car arrangements for low-level bureaucrats, meaning receipts from the Thrifty counter and the tiki bar at the Holiday Inn could technically be "classified."

So when they say this kid leaked 250,000 documents, I'd be willing to bet that over 249,000 them were meaningless pieces of bureaucratic crap that never merited classification in the first place. And the other 1,000 or so are probably politically embarrassing letters that show the complete ineptitude of Hildebeast's State Department.

[conimbricenses]

Anyone who purposely leaks top-secret information which jeopardizes our national security should spend the rest of their lives in prison.

Fair enough, but I'm withholding judgment on this one until we know if what he leaked did that. The helicopter video is potentially embarrassing, depending on who you ask, but it isn't a threat to national security. So it all depends on the contents of the rest of the items he leaked.

If they contained secret information about troop placements and deployment plans, then yes. String him up. But the government also has a bad habit of classifying everything to the level of absurdity.

There is actually a reasonable chance in this case that "top secret" equals Hillary's receipt from the minibar at the Ritz.