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Probe: Army ignored warnings over soldier [PFC Bradley Manning]
The Miami Herald/McClatchy News ^
| January 28, 2011
| Nancy A. Youssef
Posted on 01/28/2011 11:30:57 AM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: army; bradleymanning; dadt; diversity; dod; gay; manning; wikileaks
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To: ConjunctionJunction
Gays and Muslims are off limits to the UCMJ.
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posted on
01/28/2011 11:32:38 AM PST
by
Spok
("What are you going to believe; me or your own eyes?" -Groucho Marx)
To: ConjunctionJunction
Thanks to the dems, now there will be more homosexuals in the military like this unbalanced loser Manning. What a great idea!
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posted on
01/28/2011 11:35:47 AM PST
by
hsalaw
To: ConjunctionJunction
PC and diversity raises its ugly head again. Are you paying attention, Gen. Casey?
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posted on
01/28/2011 11:38:17 AM PST
by
jazusamo
(His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
To: ConjunctionJunction
“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.
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posted on
01/28/2011 11:43:35 AM PST
by
flowerplough
(Thomas Sowell: Those who look only at Obama's deeds tend to become Obama's critics.)
To: ConjunctionJunction
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.
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posted on
01/28/2011 11:44:10 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Spok
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.
To: ConjunctionJunction
How are we going to recruit real men when the U.S. Army is run like a bathhouse?
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posted on
01/28/2011 11:46:39 AM PST
by
July4
(Remember the price paid for your freedom.)
To: ConjunctionJunction
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.
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posted on
01/28/2011 11:47:04 AM PST
by
Will88
To: Spok
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.
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posted on
01/28/2011 11:47:14 AM PST
by
brushcop
(CW4 Matthew Lourey CW2 Joshua Scott/ Kiowa pilots KIA Iraq '05. Thank you for our son's life.)
To: ConjunctionJunction; All
any idea exactly when they ignored the advice to send him over??? no dates given...
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posted on
01/28/2011 11:51:38 AM PST
by
God luvs America
(When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
To: ConjunctionJunction
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posted on
01/28/2011 11:53:27 AM PST
by
VoiceOfBruck
(Smile! You weren't aborted!)
To: jazusamo
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.
To: 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/
To: WaterBoard
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.
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posted on
01/28/2011 12:11:10 PM PST
by
jazusamo
(His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
To: ConjunctionJunction
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.
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posted on
01/28/2011 12:16:35 PM PST
by
Jonah Hex
("To Serve Manatee" is a cookbook!)
To: flowerplough
There would have been no need to “order” the Code Red.
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posted on
01/28/2011 12:34:29 PM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: brushcop
Perverted behavior by soldiers involving animals. People of the same sex are off limits.
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posted on
01/28/2011 12:38:52 PM PST
by
B4Ranch
(Do NOT remain seated until this ride comes to a full and complete stop! We're going the wrong way!)
To: WaterBoard
You’ve got the wrong link. This one involves a professor, Bruce E. Fleming who dared to speak the truth.
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posted on
01/28/2011 12:43:22 PM PST
by
B4Ranch
(Do NOT remain seated until this ride comes to a full and complete stop! We're going the wrong way!)
To: brushcop
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.
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