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What bothers me most about this case is the total absence of responsibility of his superiors. Private in the military do nothing by themselves, should have no a
by coldcode 13y ago
What bothers me most about this case is the total absence of responsibility of his superiors. Private in the military do nothing by themselves, should have no access to anything or make any decisions without someone telling them what to do. Basically if a private screws up, the chain of command screwed up. Of course in reality the big guys get away with it, but still someone was in charge of this private and gave him access to top secret information and failed to pay attention to what he was doing. That is the definition of dereliction of your duty as a leader. Yet I've heard nothing about anyone else's punishment (which could be the press simply sucks).
- mpyne 13y agoThat's true. But the problem is that this particular failing goes essentially all the way to the top. There was a massive pressure to get people with Manning's skills into the military jobs that required clearances. This was such that even the process of getting a clearance got oursourced to contractors (witness the furor around the company that handled Snowden's screening). Even if Manning's immediate supervisor had tried to get him stripped of his clearance for any of the many "red flags", his supervisor would simply have got in trouble instead for doing something to get rid of a warm body in a seat that needed filled.