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> And you think you could use that free time to sort through thousands of pages of classified documents without your fellow soldiers or your superiors knowing?
by the_trapper 10y ago
> And you think you could use that free time to sort through thousands of pages of classified documents without your fellow soldiers or your superiors knowing?
Most of the military intelligence Soldiers I deployed with brought their own personal laptops.
You really underestimate how much free alone time is available to you when you are deployed. Remember that Manning was also kind of a black sheep at the time. Spending hours alone on a laptop would not have been seen as out of the ordinary at all.
- boomboomsubban 10y agoI don't question the free time, I doubt the ability for someone already under a fair amount of emotional distress to be able to hide reading thousands of pages of classified data. Even with the route she took, it was only a matter of months for her to make a mistake that got her arrested. Giving it to wikileaks reduced her anxiety, going through it likely would have ramped it up. Additionally, needing to keep a local copy of the data is a huge risk.