(incoming) House intel chairman: Execute WikiLeaks soldier

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (DoD? Gannett?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.
To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

Read all about Fair Use here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: Nice to see the repubs stating their agenda. :sarcasm:




House intel chairman: Execute WikiLeaks soldier
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Dec 15, 2010 19:08:17 EST

A former Army officer who has called for the execution of a soldier charged with leaking classified documents has been tapped by Republicans to head the House Intelligence Committee next year.

[EFerrari]

1. Who votes for these people. That's just embarrassing. n/t

[Pathwalker]

13. Lansing, Michigan and surrounding areas.

Yes, it's embarrassing. He won without running a single campaign ad, and the Dems had trouble finding someone to run against him. The first guy dropped out right away, and the second guy couldn't raise any money. I have no idea why he's popular.

[EFerrari]

17. I though MI was more blue than that.

:)

[Pathwalker]

19. Unfortunately, it went very red this last election, but Rogers has

been re-elected many times. Many small towns surround Lansing and they are mostly redder than red with red necks. I know voters in Lansing who voted against Virg Bernero for Governor because they wanted him to remain Mayor of Lansing. I guess we're stupid that way. :shrug:

[SpiralHawk]

The republicon Inquistion is just getting underway

[no_hypocrisy]

2. G. Gordon Liddy would have said the same thing.

[Statistical]

3. The maximum punishment under UCMJ is execution so if convicted the request is valid.

99% chance the govt will instead seek reduction in rank to E-1, forfeiture of all pay & allowances, and confinement in military prison system for the rest of his natural life without the possibility of parole.

What civilians often forget is violations of UCMJ are tried in a court martial and you are judged by your peers (6 enlisted and 6 officers form the jury). Generally speaking releasing a quarter million classified documents to a foreign entity during a time of war isn't a smart strategy.

Sadly he was just used and discarded by wikileaks. I assume he thought he would be protected.

[EFerrari]

6. The government can seek all it wants but all they have

is the testimony of a convicted hacker with a psychiatric history.

And there is no basis for your claim that he was "use and discarded" by wikileaks. Wikileas didn't approach him and they controlled no part of this process.

[Statistical]

8. That isn't "all" the govt has. Have you worked on the SIPRNET? I have.

Everything you do is logged. I mean everything. Every file you access, every action you take, every movement of the mouse, every keystroke pressed.

They can a complete audit log of everything he did that day from the moment he sat down at his workstation to the moment he left with quarter million classified documents he removed from a classified network.

[EFerrari]

9. Unless you've seen that log, you don't know if they have it.

An administration that would leave this material sitting around at the disposable of hundreds of thousands if not millions of users may be no better at record keeping than they are at other kinds of security.

[Statistical]

10. It isn't an admins choice.

The system logs everything, logging can't be turned off, and the logs aren't kept locally.
There is a server farm in Nebraska that does nothing but store SIPRNET (and NMCI) logs.

Still it **might** be possible the log went missing but you claim that "all" the govt has is still dubious because you don't know for sure the log is missing.

We will see in the trial but the SIPRNET records everything for this exact reason.

As far as granting him access... he is an analyst he should have access. What is impossible to believe is that there was no audit system in place that looked for statistical anomalies. Using usage statistics the system could say 95% of the time junior enlisted intel analysts acess less than 92.7 documents per day. HOLY SHIT this guy is accessing 2500x the normal usage rate. Maybe we should send a warm body there to see if there is an issue.

[Pavulon]

15. Right, not using a IDS/ IPS

system to mine logs was a very bad call.

[Pavulon]

14. syslog server will hang bradass.

i know for a FACT that network uses syslog server for nodes. not catching it upfront is piss poor security.

[NobodyHere]

21. When was war declared?

But to clear up an inaccuracy, a jury doesn't have to consist of 6 officers and 6 enlisted. Manning can request an all enlisted jury (who are all above him in rank), an all officer jury, and or just leave it to the judge to decide.

[pacalo]

4. The end of the article did say that Rogers will have no power over military decisions...

but, as we know, this isn't an absolute when thugs are involved.

[bemildred]

5. Posturing buffoon. nt

[Solly Mack]

7. fffffffffffffffffff

[hlthe2b]

11. When did a paragraph become one sentence?

'Sorry, but all the fair use qualifiers got me off track.

Is there no one around to smack down such irresponsible RETHUGs when they say this crap?

[Luminous Animal]

16. When that one sentence is the entire 1st paragraph of the article.

[hlthe2b]

18. Show me where the requirements state this?

LA, once again can't contain himself from speaking for everyone else. :eyes:

[Pathwalker]

12. That's my congresscretin. He won re-election by a wide margin AND

never even had a single ad on tv. If he spent a dime on his campaign, it never saw the light of day. Horrible person. :cry:

[kgnu_fan]

20. Violent and stupid criminal is coming to town