Wednesday, June 9, 2010

The 'wikileaker' and the White House - NYPOST.com

The 'wikileaker' and the White House - NYPOST.com

Yesterday brought the welcome news that a 22-year-old soldier had been busted for passing classified gun-camera tapes and documents to Wikileaks. If proven guilty, Spc. Bradley Manning needs to do serious prison time.

But that's where the good news ends. Spc. Manning was only caught because he bragged about his crime to a former hacker, who turned him in to the Army. Our government still isn't serious about plugging classified leaks in wartime.

According to Wired.com, which broke the story, the renegade soldier sent a chest-thumping message claiming that "Hillary Clinton and several thousand diplomats around the world are going to have a heart attack" because of the large volume of State Department documents he claimed to have leaked.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_wikileaker_and_the_white_house_5wjrb0VLR1WSfVzQRE5G5O#ixzz0qP4Kzx4G

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