Wikileaks

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Cindy

Okay, I am tired, and going to bed. Will read in the morning.

Me too! Night, Cindy!

[jfrog]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

LOL!

Manning put a classified gun-sight video of a 2007 Army Apache helicopter attack in Iraq on his un-classified computer. He then accessed classified documents, databases and videos and hooked up with Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange.

He was mad at the breakup with his boyfriend, became depressed, and thinking he had nothing else to lose, lost his mind.

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I am more interested in how he got to access all that classified material?

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by jfrog

I am more interested in how he got to access all that classified material?

Evidently, he had access for a period of time.

"If you had unprecedented access to classified networks 14 hours a day 7 days a week for 8+ months, what would you do?" he wrote.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...060906170.html

How 250,000 US embassy cables were leaked

Intended to be read by officials in Washington up to the level of the secretary of state, the cables are generally drafted by the ambassador or subordinates. Although their contents are often startling and troubling, the cables are unlikely to gratify conspiracy theorists. They do not contain evidence of assassination plots, CIA bribery or such criminal enterprises as the Iran-Contra scandal in the Reagan years, when anti-Nicaraguan guerrillas were covertly financed.

One reason may be that America's most sensitive "top secret" and above foreign intelligence files cannot be accessed from Siprnet, the defence department network involved.

It was childishly easy, according to the published chatlog of a conversation Manning had with a fellow-hacker. "I would come in with music on a CD-RW labelled with something like 'Lady Gaga' … erase the music … then write a compressed split file. No one suspected a thing ... [I] listened and lip-synched to Lady Gaga's Telephone while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history." He said that he "had unprecedented access to classified networks 14 hours a day 7 days a week for 8+ months".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...-cables-leaked

[jfrog]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Evidently, he had access for a period of time.



How 250,000 US embassy cables were leaked

That makes more sense now.

[Baron1710]

Originally Posted by DAII

No game changers ... just more proof that many of us trust the public persona we as a nation put out ... but would be repulsed at the back room dealing and hypocrisy those so many revere as political idols.

Originally Posted by DAII

Thank God for the Republican Kingdom of God ... where we can beat 'dem gays with a stick and hang them for treason as a Australian national.

Ignorance. I fear your politics more than I fear what we might find out through Wikileaks. You're the danger to freedom

Did I miss something?

These documents are from when Obama has been in office (though I doubt the documents from when Bush was in office are much different). The reality is we do make deals, everyday is a negotiation and playing hide the ball with the other side is part of it.

I don't see that the US did anything wrong here, but what this soldier has done does smack of treason. An execution might not be a bad idea and I had no idea the guy was gay, guess I missed that article. This guy is a Benedict Arnold and should be hung for his crimes.

[DAII]

Originally Posted by canam

I wish someone would just take that geek, assange, out and beat him.Why not just block him, we control the web.

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Right. My husband said they need to take him out once a day and beat him with a stick. He is gay and was mad at his boyfriend. I don't know what that has to do with him doing his job incorrectly. Looks like treason to me. I think they should hang him.

PO responded about Asange ... then 180'ed.

She may want to familiarize herself with the names in the story ...

As for domestic law, Manning, broke it.

As for back room deals .... we still must deal with integrity because if ever shown to light ... it affects any credibility we have.

[Cindy]

Originally Posted by DAII

PO responded about Asange ... then 180'ed.

Talking about 2 different people.

[DAII]

Originally Posted by Cindy

Talking about 2 different people.

PO gets a kick out of beating men with a stick ... especially if they're gay ... it satiates her inner Republican Christian.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by DAII

PO gets a kick out of beating men with a stick ... especially if they're gay ... it satiates her inner Republican Christian.

I forgive you, Daniel, and I apologize for arguing with you.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Cindy

Talking about 2 different people.

You are right, Cindy. When I read canam's post, I had my mind on and was reading, Manning, and not Assange. I didn't even notice he wrote Assange.

Originally Posted by canam

I wish someone would just take that geek, assange, out and beat him.Why not just block him, we control the web.