Probe: Army ignored warnings over soldier [PFC Bradley Manning]

The Miami Herald/McClatchy News ^ | January 28, 2011 | Nancy A. Youssef

[ConjunctionJunction]

Probe: Army ignored warnings over soldier

Supervisors unwisely sent to Iraq an Army private later accused of spreading sensitive information to WikiLeaks, an investigation has concluded.

WASHINGTON -- Investigators have concluded that Army commanders ignored advice not to send to Iraq an Army private who is now accused of downloading hundreds of thousands of sensitive reports and diplomatic cables that ended up on the WikiLeaks website in the largest single security breach in American history, McClatchy has learned.

Pfc. Bradley Manning's direct supervisor warned that Manning had thrown chairs at colleagues and shouted at higher ranking soldiers in the year he was stationed at Fort Drum, N.Y., and advised that Manning shouldn't be sent to Iraq, where his job would entail accessing classified documents through the Defense Department's computer system.

But superior officers decided to ignore the advice because the unit was short of intelligence analysts and needed Manning's skills, two military officials familiar with the investigation told McClatchy.

[Spok]

Gays and Muslims are off limits to the UCMJ.

[hsalaw]

Thanks to the dems, now there will be more homosexuals in the military like this unbalanced loser Manning. What a great idea!

[jazusamo]

PC and diversity raises its ugly head again. Are you paying attention, Gen. Casey?

[flowerplough]

“had thrown chairs at colleagues and shouted at higher ranking soldiers”

In the Reagan Army, some years back, the chairs and a whole lot more would have come flying right back at the little weasel.

[Army Air Corps]

Pfc. Bradley Manning's direct supervisor warned that Manning had thrown chairs at colleagues and shouted at higher ranking soldiers in the year he was stationed at Fort Drum, N.Y., and advised that Manning shouldn't be sent to Iraq, where his job would entail accessing classified documents through the Defense Department's computer system.

I wouldn't trust this guy with the deep fryer at Denny's.

[Temujinshordes]

You are 100% correct. Untouchables. To deal with it directly is to the detriment of the unit commander, safer for him or her to kick the can down the road.

[July4]

How are we going to recruit real men when the U.S. Army is run like a bathhouse?

[Will88]

And we can safely bet that there are significant numbers of other less than ideal service members whose ‘warning signs’ are being ignored for the same reasons Manning and the Fort Hood jihadi were ignored.

The predictable results of standards lowered for PC reasons, in and out of the military.

[brushcop]

Gays and Muslims are off limits to the UCMJ.

No, it's PC commanding officers that determine homosexual behavior and Muslims to be off limits. Perverted behavior is still addressed in the UCMJ as well as other acts.

[God luvs America]

any idea exactly when they ignored the advice to send him over??? no dates given...

[VoiceOfBruck]

Color me surprised.

[WaterBoard]

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, elevated diversity to a “strategic imperative” during his tenure as chief of naval operations. Academy leaders, on their official Web site, call diversity “our highest personnel priority.”

[WaterBoard]

The U.S. Naval Academy has agreed to a legal settlement with a dissident faculty member after a federal investigation found evidence that it had illegally denied him a merit-pay increase to punish him for his public criticism of its affirmative-action policies.

the Office of Special Counsel alleged that top Naval Academy officials had denied him a raise recommended by his immediate supervisor, and that they had done so in retaliation for his public assertions that the institution's race-conscious admissions policies were so heavy-handed that they probably violated federal civil-rights laws.

http://chronicle.com/article/Investigators-Say-Naval/126064/

[jazusamo]

Yes and thanks. I mentioned Gen. Casey because of the diversity remarks he made publicly right after the Ft. Hood murders by this muslim terrorist. Casey’s remarks were extremely inappropriate.

[Jonah Hex]

Oh gods, back in my day (early '80s), behavior like that would have resulted in falling up a ladder or two on the way to the brig.

[massgopguy]

There would have been no need to “order” the Code Red.

[B4Ranch]

Perverted behavior by soldiers involving animals. People of the same sex are off limits.

[B4Ranch]

You’ve got the wrong link. This one involves a professor, Bruce E. Fleming who dared to speak the truth.

[Temujinshordes]

We all understand. There is nothing in the UCMJ about Muslims that I know of. But the command climate inhibits young commanders from doing what is correct. Their OERs will suffer, particularly when the Chairman of the JSC and CofS of the Army actively support these themes. As a young company commander in II Corps during the late unpleasantness in SEA, a young white man from the south blessed with a rich southern accent and not a Point officer, I had two strikes against me anytime I had to discipline a black soldier. There was a knee jerk reaction that I was being too harsh and I was somehow at fault. A similar thing will happen now with straight officers and NCOs and openly gay soldiers, as well as where there are Christian officers and NCOs and Muslim soldiers.