Manning in trouble before
Our little Wikileaks rat, Bradley Manning, has been in trouble before his current well-known crimes according to Wired which was quoted on CNN’s website;
Wired.com recently reported that he was punished for uploading videos on YouTube in which he talked about classified buildings at the base and classified materials he saw.
Manning did not disclose classified information in the videos, but did discuss the rooms where secure information was held, which was considered a security risk, Wired.com reported.
Despite the punishment, Manning graduated from his training in August 2008 as an intelligence analyst with security clearance.
So he put sensitive information on YouTube and someone thought that letting him continue his training and give him a security clearance was a good idea? Later on he was busted a stripe for some sort of altercation and no one thought he’d hold a grudge and take out the reduction and loss of pay on the Army?
This is beginning to sound exactly like the Nidal Hassan case. Disgruntled people who showed outward signs of some sort of social disorder which the Army ignored and it came back to bite them (us) in the ass.
Now Newsweek (in my opinion, vastly overpriced at Washington Post’s $1 asking price) reports that Taliban is using the Wikileaks documents as an excuse for revenge killings.
Category: Military issues, Terror War
Have you seen this? I wonder if the reason this isn’t getting a lot of press is concern it might impact DADT.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7918632/Bradley-Manning-suspected-source-of-Wikileaks-documents-raged-on-his-Facebook-page.html
Word is that this kid is “that guy”. I happen to know some of his peers who say that he was kind of a douche way before all this.
During my last two tours in the Navy, they looked for ANY reason to revoke a security clearance. How did this dirtbag skate??
I thought the military did EXTENSIVE background checks for security clearances? The lore is they talk to your family, neighbors, bank, the cops, your school(s)….EVERYBODY. The link that Jack put up shows this kid’s had problems for quite awhile.
I’m with Thor on this one. HOW DID THIS KID GET PAST THE SCREENING?
Forget the screening, how did he get into the Army? Kind of a “Douche”? Hell, his picture is in the dictionary next to the word douche’.
Alright–flame me if you want, but I’ll say it–how come the DADT repeal crowd got awful fuckin quiet when this douchenozzle showed up?
No flames Sparky, seems you put those rounds in the black. And, no that isn’t racist.
Aw, jeez, a shitbag– and a flamin’ one, at that. (DADT crowd wants to hide him and pretend he doesn’t exist.)
Thanks to him we all have security clearance.
“Later on he was busted a stripe for some sort of altercation and no one thought he’d hold a grudge and take out the reduction and loss of pay on the Army?”
Oh, man… I recall OPSEC briefings, despite the “death by power point” of it all, that disgruntled employees/Soldiers were prime SAEDA material…