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US intelligence analyst arrested

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia_pacific/10254072.stm

A US military analyst, Bradley Manning, has been arrested on suspicion of leaking classified combat video and documents to a whistle-blower website.

Specialist Manning, 22, was detained during a tour of duty in Iraq, and is being held in Kuwait pending further investigations.

The WikiLeaks website posted a video which it says shows the US military shooting civilians in Baghdad in 2007.
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I'm not sure on what to say here.
 
Skeptic said:
His job was so secret even he didn't know what he was doing.
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I've often wondered if perhaps I am myself a secret agent, one so secret that even I don't know it. But then I start thinking that perhaps I am the Antichrist, operating under similar memory editing, and I find that a far more plausible possibility than the secret agent one.
 
TragicMonkey said:
I've often wondered if perhaps I am myself a secret agent, one so secret that even I don't know it. But then I start thinking that perhaps I am the Antichrist, operating under similar memory editing, and I find that a far more plausible possibility than the secret agent one.
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Sounds like cyberpunk and/or transhuman SF, where memories are routinely copied, backed-up, downloaded, edited, or locked away until triggered by some event. I know the concept is deeply disturbing to most modern people (I admit I would not be very comfortable with it), but I find very fascinating the stories where people take all this for granted -- everyone EXPECTS to have a few locked-away memories, like forgotten jewelry in a bottom drawer (or at least everyone old enough to accumulate them), everyone knows that at least some of their memories are made-up, and mind-hacks and mind-viruses are just annoyances, -- dangerous if you do not use proper precautions, but hardly supernatural horrors.
 
Hey, we've caught 'em before.

Ana Belen Montes as well as others come to mind; only difference here is that instead of another country, he was releasing to a website.
 
NWO Sentryman said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia_pacific/10254072.stm



I'm not sure on what to say here.
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Without regard to the meaning or purpose of what he did, he is, and should be, likely to face removal from any position of trust and be courtmarshalled. If the video is the one I think it is, it showed nothing that proves or even makes likely the US doing anything knowingly wrong/incorrect.

That is why I compared the Israeli release of night vision video (recent ship incident) to that one specifically - the quality of the video - and assumably of the images it records - does not prove in any way what happened/went on in terms of was it wrong to fire as was done. - in either case.
 
I was just listening to this on NPR.

Only 1 piece of leaked material was the video in which a helicopter took out Iraqi journalists. In regard to this I congratulate him for leaking it.

However there are apparently numerous other instances of leaked information, some of which fall under the usual "revealing this will put troops in danger" or "cause other harm".

I'm not familiar with everything he revealed but he supposedly did it because he disagreed with various aspects of military policy.

If the helicopter vid is anything to go on it seems I might disagree with those policies as well.
 
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