He held a Top Secret/SCI clearance.-----
How did this person receive (and maintain) the level of security clearance required to access Classified networks and multiple highly restricted databases – in a SCIF, apparently without supervision.
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An Army private charged with leaking classified material to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks
had civilian help, a key figure in the case said Saturday.
Adrian Lamo, the Sacramento, Calif.-based computer hacker who turned in Bradley to military authorities in May, claimed in a telephone interview Saturday he had firsthand knowledge that
someone helped Manning set up encryption software to send classified information to WikiLeaks.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/US/...ry?id=11296279
First, Private Manning is openly homosexual. Did you know that? I didn't; if the fact has been reported in the American press, I've missed it. Moreover, Manning was an activist who demonstrated against Congress's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
His Facebook includes a photo of him at a gay rights rally, holding a sign demanding equality on "the battlefield."
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archive.../07/026889.php
Manning apparently asked Lamo "if you had free reign [sic] over classified networks for long periods of time... say, 8-9 months... and you saw incredible things, awful things...
things that belonged in the public domain, and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington DC... what would you do? ... say... a database of half a million events during the Iraq war... from 2004 to 2009... with reports, date time groups, lat-lon locations, casualty figures... ? or 260,000 state department cables from embassies and consulates all over the world,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning