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Home Front: WoT
Pentagon Eyes Accused Analyst Over WikiLeaks Data
2010-07-27
You can check out this clueless grinner's pic at the link.
In early July, the U.S. military announced it would press criminal charges against 22-year-old Pfc. Manning for allegedly transferring classified military information to his computer and "delivering national defense information to an unauthorized source."
A whopping 22 years old. You think he'd know that he's too young to make those kinds of decisions and at least wait a few years to gain some experience.

But the way things have been going, he'll probably get two years in the brig instead of having to serve out the rest of is stint in the military. Oh, and don't forget the DD. Owie. That'll be worth it because you know some employer with a LLL bent will hire the idiot and slap him on the back and call him a hero. If I were king, he'd end up in front of a firing squad just for intending to cause all kinds of harm to the US cause in the region. Only time will tell what kind of info this cretin has released as he couldn't possibly have read and understood all that stuff in the time he was in the army.
Posted by:gorb

#5  I have zero patience nor any sympathy with anyone that has been entrusted with classified information and then sells out wholesale to the enemy.

DD? No, if they are very lenient the best he should do is the big chicken dinner after a couple of decades of breaking rocks.

I say Execute him, a deliberate act of treason during wartime.

If we cannot do that (and its likely we cannot given who the CINC is), then put him away for life without parole, at hard labor in Leavenworth. Or else put him away like Hanssen and AlQaeda in SuperMax.

And go after the people behind Wikileaks. They are guilty of illegally receiving classified documents, and further, they revealed them instead of going to the authorities. Go after them civil and criminal to the maximum extent. I dont care if we get a conviction, but BREAK them.
Posted by: OldSpook   2010-07-27 22:47  

#4  Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is a former American FBI agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States for 22 years from 1979 to 2001. He is currently serving a life sentence at the Federal Bureau of Prisons Administrative Maximum facility in Florence, Colorado, a "Supermax" federal penitentiary in which Hanssen spends 23 hours a day in solitary confinement.

Should this guy not get something similar? Or suggested, dust off the distinguished Rosenburg chair of excellence.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn someone in the BO administration leaked the information as an excuse for getting out of Afghanistan. Hard to trust anyone in Washington who speaks today.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-07-27 09:58  

#3  Out: "traitor"
In: "whistleblower"
Posted by: tu3031   2010-07-27 08:33  

#2  Time to dust off the Rosenberg Chair at the Big Fed? Toss up, wishy washy Military Court of Appeals or Holder's DoJ. Who should get the jurisdiction to prosecute?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2010-07-27 08:18  

#1  I heard on the radio this am that he pretended to listen to music as he downloaded the intel onto his mp3 player. I know flash drives are forbidden in DOD, now ipods too?
Posted by: Spot   2010-07-27 08:01  

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