President Obama issued one last burst of commutations for federal prisoners Monday, including a reduction of Chelsea Manning's sentence from 35 years to time served, plus another four months so she can get ready for life after prison. The commutation brings Manning's sentence more in line with those given to others who have leaked classified information to the media, and is bound to reinforce all those conservatives' suspicions that Obama doesn't care one bit about national security, unlike the president-elect, who would have shot Manning and invited Vladimir Putin to come have pajama parties with him in the White House, as long as neither of them expects to braid the other's hair.
My understanding is she LITERALLY just stuck a thumb drive in her DOD computer--something I've thought should get the DOD IT guys court-martialed for. She didn't "hack" anywhere she wasn't already authorized to be--any sensitive stuff she got was there by mistake, ie. a fuck-up by the guy in charge of it.
People died from their honest mistake. If you hold the power of life and death in your hand you have to accept responsibility when, even acting under the best of intentions and information, something goes wrong and the wrong person is killed. (what a concept anyway fuck this world and every person on it)
She had access to the network due to her clearance. There was no hacking involved. She did just pull everything she could fit onto the drive from the SIPRNET. The drive should have never been allowed in the SCIF, but having the basic clearance means she wouldn't get searched physically upon entering. Leave all bags and cameras outside even with a clearance, but not having to turn out pockets or anything. No clearance would have meant no entrance at all. No one else did anything wrong. All the info was where it was supposed to be, on the network it was supposed to be on.
The USB ports are usually active to hook up a CAC reader to log in and a wired mouse. It has to all be wired because wireless systems can be a breach point. It's not a perfect system by any means, which is why there are serious consequences for violating the rules and for disregarding the NDA and the oath that goes with it..
Yes people died. I can speak from experience that finding out what you thought was a legitimate target wasn't will fuck you up for a good long while.
I don't know the pilots, I don;t think I know anyone who was on the ground, but if they are anything like the vast majority of people I know who were in similar situations, they are tore up about it. They will carry that guilt with them for the rest of their lives.
Right, so as a Private, her clearance was fairly low I imagine--any higher-level stuff that got scooped up shouldn't have been there in the first place, ie. sloppy on the people entrusted with filing it.Also, I'm obv. not an IT guy, but I'd imagine it's not hard to prevent moving files onto unauthorized drives.What I'm saying is you don't leave your car full of gold bricks running outside the Kwik-E-Mart and call it armed robbery when it get stolen.
I was actually wondering about that. I don't think the incoming administration can do anything to change the commutation, any more than they could un-pardon someone.
We do, as a culture, like to think that somehow we are different, though. That because we are so exceptional, our occupations don't stink and our completely righteous wars only ever harm very bad people.
Many don't like to be reminded that this isn't the case, and I think that was part of the reason for Manning's draconian sentence.
Seems to fit the definition of "clemency" to me, but maybe Assange uses a different dictionary than I do. You know, one where "douchebag" is defined as "selfless hero".
I don't know why his sentence was what is was. War is dirty business. Personally I think more people should. Be exposed to war and not be allowed to look away. Maybe then they wouldn't be so keen to start one every 15 years or so
My understanding is she LITERALLY just stuck a thumb drive in her DOD computer--something I've thought should get the DOD IT guys court-martialed for. She didn't "hack" anywhere she wasn't already authorized to be--any sensitive stuff she got was there by mistake, ie. a fuck-up by the guy in charge of it.
The big one is dont be a creature of habit
People died from their honest mistake. If you hold the power of life and death in your hand you have to accept responsibility when, even acting under the best of intentions and information, something goes wrong and the wrong person is killed. (what a concept anyway fuck this world and every person on it)
He has had plenty of time to be a martyr.
She had access to the network due to her clearance. There was no hacking involved. She did just pull everything she could fit onto the drive from the SIPRNET. The drive should have never been allowed in the SCIF, but having the basic clearance means she wouldn't get searched physically upon entering. Leave all bags and cameras outside even with a clearance, but not having to turn out pockets or anything. No clearance would have meant no entrance at all. No one else did anything wrong. All the info was where it was supposed to be, on the network it was supposed to be on.
The USB ports are usually active to hook up a CAC reader to log in and a wired mouse. It has to all be wired because wireless systems can be a breach point. It's not a perfect system by any means, which is why there are serious consequences for violating the rules and for disregarding the NDA and the oath that goes with it..
Yes people died. I can speak from experience that finding out what you thought was a legitimate target wasn't will fuck you up for a good long while.
I don't know the pilots, I don;t think I know anyone who was on the ground, but if they are anything like the vast majority of people I know who were in similar situations, they are tore up about it. They will carry that guilt with them for the rest of their lives.
how about freeing Leonard Peltier - not only for justice and the native american way - it would be a nice fuck off to the traitor Comey and his F.B.I.
Up to #3 now 1:02 MST.
MST3K? That's not a time zone!
Right, so as a Private, her clearance was fairly low I imagine--any higher-level stuff that got scooped up shouldn't have been there in the first place, ie. sloppy on the people entrusted with filing it.Also, I'm obv. not an IT guy, but I'd imagine it's not hard to prevent moving files onto unauthorized drives.What I'm saying is you don't leave your car full of gold bricks running outside the Kwik-E-Mart and call it armed robbery when it get stolen.
I was actually wondering about that. I don't think the incoming administration can do anything to change the commutation, any more than they could un-pardon someone.
We do, as a culture, like to think that somehow we are different, though. That because we are so exceptional, our occupations don't stink and our completely righteous wars only ever harm very bad people.
Many don't like to be reminded that this isn't the case, and I think that was part of the reason for Manning's draconian sentence.
Seems to fit the definition of "clemency" to me, but maybe Assange uses a different dictionary than I do. You know, one where "douchebag" is defined as "selfless hero".
Oh, I think a certain amount of paranoia and melodrama might be perfectly justified and quite useful for the next four years. . .
Sour mix in the margaritas.
I don't know why his sentence was what is was. War is dirty business. Personally I think more people should. Be exposed to war and not be allowed to look away. Maybe then they wouldn't be so keen to start one every 15 years or so