WikiLeaks

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The 'how' of this has gotten my attention.


The underlying plot thickens.

Manning, the private who apparently copied the documents confesses online to a hacker.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/gl...6/18/wikileaks

Many of the bizarre aspects of this case, at least as conveyed by Lamo and Wired, are self-evident. Why would a 22-year-old Private in Iraq have unfettered access to 250,000 pages of diplomatic cables so sensitive that they "could do serious damage to national security?" Why would he contact a total stranger, whom he randomly found from a Twitter search, in order to "quickly" confess to acts that he knew could send him to prison for a very long time, perhaps his whole life? And why would he choose to confess over the Internet, in an unsecured, international AOL IM chat, given the obvious ease with which that could be preserved, intercepted or otherwise surveilled? These are the actions of someone either unbelievably reckless or actually eager to be caught.

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Yes, I've heard they have a soldier under arrest and he will probably be tried.

Not everything is treason, but it's a label that gets thrown about.
That is, the "embarrassed party" views everything in worst possible case scenario (to them self).

But keep in mind there's a difference between public exposure and giving "secrets" to an enemy.
As discussed in the interview, once both sides know a "secret" it loses it's importance to both sides.

Treason? He was working for the Army at the time he copied the documents.Didn't he take an oath to protect the interests of the U.S. and her allis? Public exposure is a pretty soft word. Should we all start copying information from the hard-drives of where we work and expose them?