ROFLMAO

Hey Folks, meet Bradley Manning, a 22 year old Private First Class serving with the 10th Mountain Division, as a clerk. Private Manning is the fella that the United States Military would have us believe gave Wikileaks 150 thousand secret documents concerning our war in Afghanistan.

This 22 year old Private managed according to his arrest documentation to compile an extensive archive of secret documents from the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, The State Department, The CIA, the Agency for International Development, The DIA, the Whitehouse and other agencies including private contractors. This child in uniform then managed to disseminate all of these "secret" documents to wikileaks. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2548077/posts

http://bellum.stanfordreview.org/?p=2615

NO WAY! No phreaking way in hell could this guy have pulled this off. To even contemplate it is silly. To gather 150 thousand secret documents guarded by the US Military and then disseminate those documents would take a whole team of special operators. If a 22 year old Private can do this? Then we need to bug out of Afghanistan at once and review our entire military, quite possibly drug testing our military's Officer Corps.

I am just an old retired Sailor. My short term memory is in many ways shot to hell. But I do seem to recall that a couple of months ago there was a General who was in charge of our nations war efforts in Afghanistan that was fired? This General spent his entire career in The United States Special Operations Command and according to the Rolling Stone magazine article that got him fired carried nun-chucks and surrounded him self with an extremely loyal collection of Green Beret, Navy SEALs and other soldiers, sailors, Marines and civilians that the Military designate as "Operators". What makes more sense? A 22 year old Private, with less than one term of enlistment did this? Or a Command General with his team of "Operators" pissed off about what happened to their leader did this? Keep in mind that in the same Rolling Stone article General McChrystal spoke about how "computer weenies play an important part, and need to be brought into the fold of Special Operations". Also keep in mind 150 thousand files were collected, caroused, compartementilized, and downloaded to wikileaks...150 thousand files? All by a private first class?

I think this incredible leak of classified information is where General Stanley Allen McChrystal, announced his Presidential Candidacy. I also think that Barack Obama is in a tight spot. President Obama will not be able to campaign on "governmental transparency", or "change" ever again. President Obama also can not publicly and therefore politically admit that he has been played by a General he fired. That's a big time rock and hard spot by 2012. Welcome Mr. President, to the world of "Special Operations".

As for PFC. Bradley Manning? I am sure after the proper "motivation", and advice from counsel, he will plead guilty to all specifications of the UCMJ against him. He will receive a General Discharge under Honorable Conditions and just disappear into Corporate America.

The whole affair is sad, if you think about it. But yet it is brilliant, today the press is fixated on 90 thousand files released.

Makes you wonder about the value of the 60 thousand documents still laying out there in the tall grass?