Alleged Army whistleblower felt angry and alone

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http://fayobserver.com/articles/2010...011843?sac=Mil


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[jbour13]

To be a whistleblower, one has to have a whistle.

Good that he practiced well, he'll be blowing something else soon.

I'd like to rap softly on his head with a ball peen hammer until his humanist side comes out.

[blue02hd]

I'm with Jbour on this one. To even refer to him as a whistleblower is stupidity at it's finest. Leftwing spin propoganda, it just bothers me that so many sheeple will buy into it. This child of a soldier violated his charge and responsibility in an effort to attract attention. It is my hope that the UCMJ system is demonstrated in it's full capacity in order bring reality back to like minded individuals who wear our uniform.

Big boy rules apply,,,,,,

[rdret1]

From what the article says, I would guess he had trouble with his father's authority to start with. Being a military brat, he carried that resentment over to his superiors when he enlisted, and to the army itself. It would be interesting to know what flags arose during his background and security checks. If he was so openly supportive of questionable organizations, how did he get cleared as an analyst?

[greenberetTFS]

Originally Posted by rdret1

From what the article says, I would guess he had trouble with his father's authority to start with. Being a military brat, he carried that resentment over to his superiors when he enlisted, and to the army itself. It would be interesting to know what flags arose during his background and security checks. If he was so openly supportive of questionable organizations, how did he get cleared as an analyst?

Excellent point,I wondered the same thing........... This guy should be nailed hard for this,I'm interested in what will follow.....................

Big Teddy

[jbour13]

Originally Posted by rdret1

From what the article says, I would guess he had trouble with his father's authority to start with. Being a military brat, he carried that resentment over to his superiors when he enlisted, and to the army itself. It would be interesting to know what flags arose during his background and security checks. If he was so openly supportive of questionable organizations, how did he get cleared as an analyst?

We will never know, and you'd be suprised.

I live with the Army's decisions on who should be an analyst.

90% of your time on 10% of the problems.

4 years in 1/3 and I've chaptered 2, and made sure that 3 did not re-enlist.

1 such case was bestowed upon me in 2006. In the Army's infinite wisdom, they sent me a turd that after 6 months, could not pass Airborne School. The turd got to me with 11 months time in service, after which I discovered he spent the entire 6 months post AIT at the Airborne School.

I got told by the schoolhouse that they do a good job of weeding out the bad ones and send them to the right units. Obviously someone failed repeatedly.

I'll continue to do my part, everyone needs trash cleanup done on their camp somewhere. And if it ever comes to demasking procedures being emplaced, you can sure bet I've had my eye on one for a while.

[lindy]

from the article:

"According to the chat logs, Manning's turning point came when he watched Iraqi police detain 15 people for printing anti-Iraqi literature that turned out to be a scholarly critique of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

"After that ... I saw things differently," he wrote. "I was actively involved in something that I was completely against.""

Perhaps that POS should have watched more footage of the twin towers coming down. Maybe that would have been a turning point? Clearly he hasn't seen his fellow analysts get hit by an insurgent IED or attended their ramp ceremony. Turning point?

I agree with JB that Manning isn't a whistle blower. I would argue that he's actually a traitor who placed his personal desire for fame ahead of the welfare of his brothers in arms. He knowingly and willingly removed the information and transmitted that information to a foreign national. IMO, he conducted espionage in the name of ideology and should be shot as a wartime spy. Because of his background, he's a danger to American society.

[alright4u]

Originally Posted by rdret1

From what the article says, I would guess he had trouble with his father's authority to start with. Being a military brat, he carried that resentment over to his superiors when he enlisted, and to the army itself. It would be interesting to know what flags arose during his background and security checks. If he was so openly supportive of questionable organizations, how did he get cleared as an analyst?

Amazing he flew below the radar with a TS plus. Imy father served in three wars. I learned to love this country. I respected authority. I suspect it is today's teachers and society. Hell, I do not see many white boys in high school playing football.

[MasterOfMyFate]

Originally Posted by alright4u

Hell, I do not see many white boys in high school playing football.

Huh?

[Richard]

Humming Lady GaGa? That would have made me suspicious of the guy!

And so it goes...

Richard

Loophole May Have Aided Theft of Classified Data
NYT, 9 July 2010

The soldier accused of downloading a huge trove of secret data from military computers in Iraq appears to have exploited a loophole in Defense Department security to copy thousands of files onto compact discs over a six-month period. In at least one instance, according to those familiar with the inquiry, the soldier smuggled highly classified data out of his intelligence unit on a disc disguised as a music CD by Lady Gaga.

Criminal charges were filed this week against the soldier, Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, 22, who was accused of downloading more than 150,000 diplomatic cables, as well as secret videos and a PowerPoint presentation. Since his arrest in May, with initial accounts blaming him for leaking video of a deadly American helicopter attack in Baghdad in 2007, officials have sought to determine how he could have removed voluminous amounts of secret data without being caught.

A Defense Department directive from November 2008 prohibits the use of small thumb drives or larger external memory devices on any of the estimated seven million computers operated by the Pentagon and armed services. The order was issued to forestall the accidental infection of national security computer networks by viruses — and the intentional removal of classified information.

Defense Department computers have their portals disabled to prevent the use of external memory devices that are ubiquitous in homes, offices and schools, officials said. A recent amendment to the order allows the rare use of thumb drives, but only with official approval as required by a current mission.

But the Pentagon directive and the amendment did not ban the use of compact-disc devices, which are built into many computers and therefore not included in the prohibition against the use of external memory devices.

According to Pentagon officials and one former hacker who has communicated with Private Manning, he appears to have taken compact discs that can accept text, video and other data files into an intelligence center in the desert of eastern Iraq to copy and remove the classified information.

He was able to avoid detection not because he kept a poker face, they said, but apparently because he hummed and lip-synched to Lady Gaga songs to make it appear that he was using the classified computer’s CD player to listen to music.

Adrian Lamo, a well-known former hacker, had traded electronic messages in which Private Manning described his unhappiness with the Army — and, Mr. Lamo said, his activities downloading classified data.

Mr. Lamo said Private Manning described how he had used compact discs capable of storing data, but tucked inside recognizable music CD cases, “to bring the data out of the secure room.”

“He indicated he disguised one as a Lady Gaga CD,” Mr. Lamo said Thursday in a telephone interview. “He said he lip-synched to blend in.”

The four pages of official charges against Private Manning accuse him of downloading and removing the classified data from last November to May. The charges say he also loaded unauthorized software onto a computer linked to the military’s classified computer network, called the SIPR-Net. The charges do not explain the significance of that action, nor how it might have aided his alleged effort to download classified files.

In downloading more than 150,000 diplomatic cables, the charges state, Private Manning did “intentionally exceed his authorized access on” the SIPR-Net. This statement appears to be at least a partial explanation of how a soldier assigned to an Army brigade outpost in eastern Iraq was able to gain access to classified diplomatic cables on a variety of unrelated subjects.

At a Pentagon news conference on Thursday, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said they would reserve judgment on whether to order a sweeping review of security measures until it was determined whether the actions of which Private Manning is accused represent a broader problem.

“What this illustrates is the incredible amount of trust we place in even our most junior men and women in uniform,” Mr. Gates said. “We have over two million men and women in uniform, and I believe we should always err on the side of trusting them because virtually all of them — not 100 percent, but nearly 100 percent — give us reasons every single day to continue trusting them.”

Pentagon officials said they expected investigators to review the actions of Private Manning’s supervisors to determine whether enforcement of security rules was lax in a remote outpost where soldiers are assigned to duty at computers virtually around the clock.

Another line of inquiry is expected to look at whether digital red flags were raised, or should have been raised, by Private Manning’s actions, including the accusation that he spent time downloading information from classified databases not directly related to the mission of his unit, the Second Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division, based at Contingency Operating Station Hammer east of Baghdad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/wo...er=rss&emc=rss

[Dozer523]

Originally Posted by Richard

And so it goes...

Richard

[I] In at least one instance, according to those familiar with the inquiry, the soldier smuggled highly classified data out of his intelligence unit on a disc disguised as a music CD by Lady Gaga.

That no talent b!tch/tranny!!!
AND she took the cover of the Rolling Stone from GEN MC!
Rah, rah oo lah la

[18DWife]

Originally Posted by Dozer523

That no talent b!tch/tranny!!!
AND she took the cover of the Rolling Stone from GEN MC!
Rah, rah oo lah la

All I can say that wouldn't be considered offensive is HAHAHAHHAHA then it all made a tiny bit of sense lmao