Posted on 11/29/2010 6:40:47 PM PST by Paddy Irish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning
I’m still trying to figure out how a PFC in the U.S. Army had access to all of this information in the first place.
“How did this little fruit pass the background investigation for a TS clearance which, unless things have changed, requires a full field investigaton?”
I was wondering that myself!!!
Well as a matter of fact, I did just find this out. It has not been reported in the mainstream media at all, and I didn’t see anything here. Obviously this is a screwed up kid, but I’d like to hear a little more about his “support system” that helped guide him through the process of becoming a traitor to his country. Why would a gay kid that lived in Wales for many years all of sudden want to join the US army and request military intelligence? Isn’t this the exact reason why they do background checks, and why we would not want gays in positions of trust? Not because of gay acts, but because the mere threat of exposer is enough to blackmail someone.
This happened on Obama’s watch. His policies and political views let an unstable person into a sensitive position resulting in the most embarrassing leak in history.
To quote Der Spiegel, “Never before in history has a superpower lost control of such vast amounts of such sensitive information.”
It shows how weak we have become with the progressives in charge. No nation will trust us with their honest views again. Sad.
This guy is tied to Soros, who is tied to the Wikileaks founder. The Wikileaks founder’s lawyer is from Soros group OSI. At least that what was Beck said today. Too many coincidences. Bambi is just a puppet if this is true. This is truly a puppet government. Bambi has no control of if this gets out or not.
“Ive been isolated so long . . . i just wanted to figure out ways to survive . . . smart enough to know whats going on, but helpless to do anything . . . no-one took any notice of me,” he wrote at one point. Another time, he wrote: “im a wreck.”
In one particularly poignant message, Manning wrote: “my family is non-supportive . . . im losing my job . . . losing my career options . . . i dont have much more except for this laptop, some books, and a hell of a story.”
Manning was born in Crescent, Okla. His parents are divorced; his mother lives in Wales, his father in Oklahoma. He confided in Lamo that he was homeless in 2006 and had drifted from Tulsa to Chicago before landing at his aunt’s house in Potomac.
Manning said he had sent files to a “white haired aussie,” whom he later identified as Julian Assange, the peripatetic founder of Wikileaks.
In one message, Manning said: “i’m exhausted . . . in desperation to get somewhere in life . . . i joined the army . . . and that’s proven to be a disaster now . . . and now i’m quite possibly on the verge of being the most notorious ‘hacktivist’ or whatever you want to call it . . . its all a big mess i’ve created.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/09/AR2010060906170_2.html
What was going through the mind of Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private who allegedly leaked classified documents to secrets-sharing website Wikileaks? Could it be a plan to transition from living as a man to living as a woman?
It may be that Manning was worrying about change—not just from military to civilian life, but from public life as a man, to public life as a woman. Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin examined the chat logs between Manning and Lamo, the hacker/”journalist” who turned Manning over to the government and gave the story to Wired.com writer Kevin Poulsen, and found a series of not-particularly-veiled references to “transition” and gender:
But, assuming the speculation is well-founded, Manning’s pre-transition transgender identity does provide us with some sense of his mind state at the time. As Jardin’s source says, “all of it suggests the profile of a person who is clearly at a crossroads in life. And they’ve unfortunately taken a very troubling path.” Not to mention the gap it may fill in our knowledge of the whole situation—if, say, Manning contacted Lamo because Lamo is visibly active in the LGBT community.
http://gawker.com/5568351/is-wikileaker-bradley-manning-pre+transition-transgendered
What would Tony Soprano do?
Funny you should ask that. During that episode, Silvio Dante talked about how gays tend to lie more and generally be dishonest because of all the sneaking around. I started thinking about that and noticed that many of the gay people I know had problems with the truth, and tended to prey on weak people. No all of course, but they seem to have a knack for finding weaknesses in people to exploit, and often fire off lies when the truth would work better.
How in the world did this guy ever get access to classified, secret and top secret documents in the first place? A person has to go through an extensive background check before given a security clearance. And I should know, that’s part of my job to do investigations on perps like this.
Hmm? I think this kid wanted some attention no doubt. In the same way an immature Lewinsky saved the blue dress this kid probably told his gay buddies about his important job and that if he leaked this info he could cause a big stink. One think lead to another and he’s hooked up with WikiLeaks. Or! he and his buddies planned this whole thing from the begining.
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Treason is what it's called. No sympathy for the perp and no remorse for his punishment.
What would Tony Soprano do?
8 words:
He would go see his analyst.
“Court martial, execution by hanging, and a rigorous investigation of his entire chain of command. Preferably completed by tomorrow.”
If it were anyone on this board, I could see that happening. This guy is part of a protected class, so he will get off (no pun intended) with a slap on the wrist.
That picture should make it to every news outlet... of course I know it won’t.
“This happened on Obama’s watch. His policies and political views let an unstable person into a sensitive position resulting in the most embarrassing leak in history.”
This needs to be said every time wikileaks is mentioned.
We also need to keep Obama tied to the TSA fiasco.
Obama needs to be held accountable for the mess he has made in this country.
At one time I held a TS clearance and was cleared for compartmentalized info. I am pretty familiar with how message traffic is handled, who has access and how it is protected.
In the old days, he would have been scrutinized much closer and doubtful with his background he would have been able to get the clearance necessary to get access to this material. This latest batch of data sounds more like internal traffic that would be in State Dept channels and not in Army channels.
Unless he was working embassy duty, not sure how he would have had access to that. I think from reading about the previous leaks I saw that he gained access to message traffic while stationed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Perhaps they are not fully staffed over there and the military has more access than when stationed in other foreign countries...
Or maybe there is another leaker from inside the State Dept, and this schmuck is a convenient fall guy since he leaked the previous stuff...
If he attended school with a distant cousin of Sarah Palin... Or perhaps, if he bought gasoline at a service station managed by a man who knew someone who once attended a TEA Party rally...
>> What was going through the mind of Bradley Manning,
I’m wondering what his parents are thinking.
How many families will suffer for this #up?
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