Email from Bradley Manning

The email from Bradley Manning, the leaker of the “Collateral Murder” video appeared in the Washington Post this morning. Of course the Post tries to make him appear to be a sympathetic figure from a broken home, homeless at one point until he found the Army. Then the Army tossed him aside when he struck a fellow soldier recently.

“I’m an army intelligence analyst, deployed to eastern baghdad, pending discharge for ‘adjustment disorder,’ ” Manning said by way of introducing himself to Lamo, who had recently been profiled on the Web site of Wired magazine.

“If you had unprecedented access to classified networks 14 hours a day 7 days a week for 8+ months, what would you do?” he wrote.

Turns out that Manning isn’t “pending discharge for ‘adjustment disorder…”, or at least he wasn’t when communicating with Lamo.

In a phone interview, Lamo said he does not know what prompted Manning to allegedly leak. “I think it was a confluence of things — being a thin, nerdy, geeky type in an Army culture of machismo, of seeing injustice,” he said.

Guess what? There are thousands of “thin, nerdy, geeky types” in the Army who don’t leak classified material.

It’s “important that it gets out . . . i feel, for some bizarre reason . . . it might actually change something,” he said.

Everyone wants to change something these days. Some shit is better off left alone, but you can’t tell that to idiots and fools out to make a name for themselves. They should toss this 22-year-old deep under ground for a few decades so he can see how much shit changes without him.

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