A US Army soldier was arrested for passing over 260,000 classified or sensitive State Department cables to wikileaks.org which is a whistle blowing organization which specializes in posting that type of information. Most of the information was from incidents which ocurred during the last presidential administration.
I have read news accounts of this incident as I’m sure many of you have also and I am not surprised about anything that it contains. One point that I would like to clarify is that the news reports state that there were over one hundred incidents of innocent civilians being killed thet weren’t reported. I don’t think that these incidents were hidden from the public they were just not made known pubicly. The difference is that you dfinitely don’t want to publicize information which will give your enemy propaganda to use against you. I know from my military experience that there are many incidents that happen that the American public never hear about. The US and Afghanistan have instituted many new rules of engagement to prevent the killing of civilians. Anyway thats enough said on that subject. Let’s move on.
SPC Bradley Manning was the soldier arrested for passing the information but there was not much that I saw that we didn’t know about already. The only thing that I wasn’t aware of was the existence of Task Force 373. It was no surprise that there is such a force operating in Afghanistan but I just had never heard it mentioned.
The problem is that a soldier would pass sensitive information so easily that might jeapordize the lives of our military ring customers. He even bragged about it to the person who turned him in. The other thing which disturbs me is that an organization would make this information public knowing the negative consequences that it could have for our Operation Enduring Freedom ring customers serving in Afghanistan.
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