The short of it: Bradley Manning, Assange, and Edward Snowden are all part of a ring of espionage agents. I agree with exposing these other traitorous a$$ hats in our own gov't and there my sympathy ends. I'll try and sum up:
- Manning: *(Full disclosure: I have seen the files Manning was privy to) Young, inexperienced, MI soldier with access to diplomatic files in addition to military operations. The military in Iraq was placed in to a position of doing nation building things with cross info with the State Department. No 20 year old should have access to State Dept cables where they routinely call foreign counterparts names amongst other things a young guy couldn't put into context. But it's his fault and the Army in this case had no control system for this info because they had no mission priorities. Manning got swift justice as should be, and the public largely agreed unlike...
- Snowden. A contractor employee working as an IT guy at PACOM HQs. If there is one sure way to bamboozle everyone, it's to get the right to defend his actions because he exposed the shenanigans of the intel community which, BTW had already been done in a legal manner by William Binney. So, Snowden walks in to a secured facility with thumb drives, a big no-no, copies intel files, steals laptops, connects with Assange and then defects to Putin's Russia. No one could see him except Dad, who also worked at the NSA in a previous life. More connections? Snowden and his girl friend Lindsey grew up withing a stone's throw from NSA. Miraculously, she was also in HI, miracle #2, she was allowed to enter Russia and marry Snowden. And now we get to the Russo-Ukraine war and does anyone wonder what data Putin has from Snowden. Speaking of Ukraine..
- Now we get to Jack Teixeira, former airman who published tactical overlays of Ukraine military ops and Russian unit locations. According to those diagrams (open source now) they were based on assessments from several sources including Human Intelligence. Who in our field sources suffered for this? Jack got 16 years in prison - good. But don't worry, Marjorie Taylor Greene stepped up and defended him because he is "anti-war." Sure, that's why he joined the ANG, right? That is pure idiocy.
We have legitimate concerns about these agencies and there actions against the people they are supposed to protect. It all stems from incompetence, deliberate and illegal actions, and flat having to much time on their hands. If conservative pols really want to help solve these problems then stand up, be counted and cut their damn budgets. It's one of the few things they understand. Then proceed from there. Weed out all the traitors.
Thanks for your consideration.
