Bradley Manning charged in WikiLeaks case

[jmowreader]

57. Before Bush, classified information was compartmented, and now it's not

The idea, and it's a good one, is that by limiting access to classified information to ONLY the people who need it for their work, you minimized the amount of damage someone like James Hall III (who was convicted of spying for East Germany) or Jonathan Pollard (who was convicted of spying for Israel) could inflict on the national interest.

Unfortunately, we had a "president" who was more interested in vacationing and acting like a First Lady with a penis than he was in keeping this country safe, and not even telling him the worst terrorist in the world was about to attack the United States could catch his attention. So, in order that guys who make $20,000 a year could do the president's job for him, he had a system called the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRnet) set up, every organization in the federal government that generates classified information puts theirs on SIPRnet, and now any person with at least a SECRET security clearance can do exactly what Bradley Manning allegedly did.