The 'wikileaker' and the White House - One hole plugged

NY Post ^ | June 8, 2010 | Ralph Peters

[neverdem]

Yesterday brought the welcome news that a 22-year-old soldier had been busted for passing classified gun-camera tapes and documents to Wikileaks. If proven guilty, Spc. Bradley Manning needs to do serious prison time.

But that's where the good news ends. Spc. Manning was only caught because he bragged about his crime to a former hacker, who turned him in to the Army. Our government still isn't serious about plugging classified leaks in wartime.

According to Wired.com, which broke the story, the renegade soldier sent a chest-thumping message claiming that "Hillary Clinton and several thousand diplomats around the world are going to have a heart attack" because of the large volume of State Department documents he claimed to have leaked.

Manning: Alleged leaker nabbed by ex-hacker, not gov't. Well, probably not. Don't expect Ambassador Fuzzypoodle to show up in the cardio ward just yet. Judging by the gun-camera video from Baghdad that Manning handed over and Wikileaks posted a few months back, that young soldier may have had access to a lot of classified information -- but not to the really good stuff.

The video, which made the Web rounds, shows an Apache helicopter crew dealing with terrorists. Anyone with the least objectivity or military experience recognized that the crew made the right call when pulling the trigger (after deliberating). Any "civilians" killed shouldn't have been smoking and joking with terrorist gunmen.

Wikileak's big revelation was weak on sound, low on fury and signified nothing -- although the left tried to pretend it...

--snip--

I don't care if leakers of classified info are Democrats or Republicans, military or civilian. Leaking classified documents is treason. So is publishing them.

Either get serious about busting leakers, regardless of rank, or admit that that young soldier would fit right in at the White House.

[a fool in paradise]

The penalty for treason includes the death penalty. Espionage is not a pleasant crime. 250,000 documents is a lot.

[valkyry1]

Good article though IMO.

[Southack]

He only got turned in because he leaked Hillary’s state department docs.

[JSteff]

Either get serious about busting leakers, regardless of rank, or admit that that young soldier would fit right in at the White House.

Actually he is in the same shoes as other lib leakers like Woodward only doing it with video's. He should write a book and make the rounds of the dem parties and fund raisers.

[Volunteer]

If he did it, hang him.

[historyrepeatz]

He’ll probably be awarded a medal for “courageous restraint” in not doing MORE damage.

[2ndDivisionVet]

"I don't care if leakers of classified info are Democrats or Republicans, military or civilian. Leaking classified documents is treason. So is publishing them."

If that were really true, most pressrooms and TV studios in America would be barren, except for the janitors and security guards.

[Harley]

Double Standard here too. In the book Dereliction of Duty by Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson who was one of Clinton’s military aids, he stated that Bill Clinton lost the Top Secret nuclear launch codes one day while the Monica Lewinsky affair was center stage. But then Clinton’s sexcapades were more important than national security.

[jazusamo]

Hit Manning with a minimum 25 years to life, 25 years being the minimum for possible parole, other hotshots whether military or civilian may start to think twice.

[cynwoody]

According to the Wired article:

In chats with Lamo that Wired.com has examined, Manning said he had access to two classified networks from two separate secured laptops: SIPRnet, the Secret-level network used by the Department of Defense and the State Department, and the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System which serves both agencies at the Top Secret/SCI level.

The networks, he said, were both “air-gapped” from unclassified networks, but the environment at the base made it easy to smuggle data out.

“I would come in with music on a CD-RW labeled with something like ‘Lady Gaga,’ erase the music then write a compressed split file,” he wrote. “No one suspected a thing and, odds are, they never will.”

“[I] listened and lip-synced to Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone’ while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history,” he added later. ”Weak servers, weak logging, weak physical security, weak counterintelligence, inattentive signal analysis … a perfect storm.”

[chrisser]

“[I] listened and lip-synced to Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone’ while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history,” he added later. ”Weak servers, weak logging, weak physical security, weak counterintelligence, inattentive signal analysis … a perfect storm.”

I'd get banned if I said what I'm thinking about this guy. If I knew he would see it, it would almost be worth it.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the link.

[SkipW]

It looks like treason to me. He should be executed.

[Cindy]

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2529708/posts

I SUPPOSE IF I SUGGESTED SUMMARY EXECUTION I would be called “harsh”?
OSINT.INTERNET HAGANAH.com ^ | June 7, 2010 | n/a
Posted on June 7, 2010 4:16:27 PM PDT by Cindy

June 07, 2010

I SUPPOSE IF I SUGGESTED SUMMARY EXECUTION I WOULD BE CALLED “HARSH”?

SNIPPET: “U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe

Note that he didn’t just lift a video and send it to Wikileaks. He also stole and released 260,000 classified US State Department diplomatic cables.”

(Excerpt) Read more at osint.internet-haganah.com ...

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1 posted on June 7, 2010 4:16:28 PM PDT by Cindy
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ON THE INTERNET:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/leak/

2 posted on June 7, 2010 4:17:00 PM PDT by Cindy
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SNIPPET from the link in post no. 2:
“Wired.com could not confirm whether Wikileaks received the supposed 260,000 classified embassy dispatches.”

3 posted on June 7, 2010 4:18:50 PM PDT by Cindy
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[BigSkyFreeper]

I don't care if leakers of classified info are Democrats or Republicans, military or civilian. Leaking classified documents is treason. So is publishing them.

Tell that to the idiots at the New York Times and the Washington Post who continue to leak classified info that helps the enemies of freedom in the War On Terror without FOIA requests but through "anonymous source-ing".

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

Yesterday brought the welcome news that a 22-year-old soldier had been busted for passing classified gun-camera tapes and documents to Wikileaks. If proven guilty, Spc. Bradley Manning needs to do serious prison time... the renegade soldier sent a chest-thumping message claiming that "Hillary Clinton and several thousand diplomats around the world are going to have a heart attack" because of the large volume of State Department documents he claimed to have leaked... Judging by the gun-camera video from Baghdad that Manning handed over and Wikileaks posted a few months back, that young soldier may have had access to a lot of classified information -- but not to the really good stuff. The video, which made the Web rounds, shows an Apache helicopter crew dealing with terrorists. Anyone with the least objectivity or military experience recognized that the crew made the right call when pulling the trigger (after deliberating). Any "civilians" killed shouldn't have been smoking and joking with terrorist gunmen... I don't care if leakers of classified info are Democrats or Republicans, military or civilian. Leaking classified documents is treason. So is publishing them. Either get serious about busting leakers, regardless of rank, or admit that that young soldier would fit right in at the White House.