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2013-08-21 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by 2013-08-21 10:41|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 With the Manning leaks already history there should have been no way for Snowden to repeat the process at the next gov't agency down the road, yet it happened. It happened even though Snowden gave significant clues to his intentions from his initial hiring. Can NSA really be THAT incompetent at protecting secrets? Or was Snowden's whole expose engineered from above? Could there be either some viral code in what he was carrying or some significant false information, intended to be received by foreign interests or to provide tracers of foreign communications that made the sacrifice and embarrassment of the NSA domestic spying program worthwhile?

Posted by Glenmore 2013-08-21 11:27|| 2013-08-21 11:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Manning will get a Jimmy Carter style pardon in a few years at the end of Obama's term.

Posted by airandee 2013-08-21 11:59|| 2013-08-21 11:59|| Front Page Top

#3 The most disturbing thing about this sentence was that he could be released in 8 years for good behavior.

Defense lawyer David Coombs portrayed Manning as a well-intentioned but isolated soldier with gender identification issues

This is what p*sses me off: Gays can't have it both ways. Either they are identical to straights and can handle anything straights can or we gotta "go easy on him. He's gay!"

Either you can hold your end up or you can't, and Manning should never have been allowed near any secret communications.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2013-08-21 12:42|| 2013-08-21 12:42|| Front Page Top

#4 At one point, in April 2010, he sent an e-mail to a superior with the subject line "My Problem" and a photo of himself wearing a blond wig and lipstick.

Apparently cross-dressing is no longer a punishable offense under the UCMJ. Perhaps gender specific uniforms items are no longer applicable.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-21 13:10|| 2013-08-21 13:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Put him in general population at Leavenworth, problem solved.

Posted by Silentbrick 2013-08-21 13:44|| 2013-08-21 13:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Probably more than Haddad will get.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-08-21 14:00|| 2013-08-21 14:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Oooops, I meant Hassan.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-08-21 14:37|| 2013-08-21 14:37|| Front Page Top

#8 "National security crimes that undermine the entire system must be taken seriously."

As I remember, the blinded Lady Liberty holds a balance AND the book of law. How does one plea bargain balanced equivalency so that Bradelina gets "a sentence that allows him to have a life."
after putting the lives of so many others in real or potential risk?
Draconian, but let the crime fit the time, or end-of-time.

Posted by Skidmark 2013-08-21 18:15|| 2013-08-21 18:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Simple as the difference in Has and Had, Grom. Just a Freudian.

Posted by Skidmark 2013-08-21 18:16|| 2013-08-21 18:16|| Front Page Top

#10 #3 the DemoLeft + aligned will support anything, everything, + of course nothing iff it results in perennial Budget, Debt-busting Big[ger] Govt.

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