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A heavily redacted Department of Defense report concludes that documents leaked to WikiLeaks had no "significant strategic impact" on the war in Afghanistan and "[had] no direct personal impact on current and former senior US leadership in Iraq":
The publication of hundreds of thousands of secret US documents leaked by the Army soldier Chelsea Manning in 2010 had no strategic impact on the American war efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, a newly released Pentagon analysis concluded.
The main finding of the Department of Defense report, written a year after the breach, was that Manning's uploading of more than 700,000 secret files to the open information organization WikiLeaks had no significant strategic effect on the US war efforts.
The belated publication of the analysis gives the lie to the official line maintained over several years that the leak had caused serious harm to US national security.
[...] The conclusions are contained in the final report of the information review task force that the DoD set up in the wake of the Manning leaks to look into their impact in the hope of mitigating any damage. The report was obtained by BuzzFeed's investigative reporter Jason Leopold under freedom of information laws.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday June 22 2017, @11:54PM
The documents Bradley Manning leaked had nothing to do with surveillance, they were just embarrassing war videos of hillbilly cowboys gunning down innocents from a helicopter and diplomatic bullshit from the ambassador of Niggerstan calling the ambassador from Durkadurkastan an asshole.
I didn't believe it at first, but after some thought and some analysis I have come to believe that, above all, Manning was your classic disgruntled employee. Small dude, aloof and maybe a bit unstable, picked on and fucked-with nonstop by his peers with no way out (the military is not a job you can just "quit," or even "call in sick" to, without lasting consequences). With a Top Secret clearance, he was truly fucked. They were never going to let him go (without something to deserve a courts-martial) and he had no choice but to be bullied and fucked with all day every day.
That's not to say that he didn't benefit the public, but there was motivation other than altruism whether or not he consciously realized it.
Now, Adrian Lamo, the guy who ratted him out, has that smug shit-eating face you just wanna punch on sight. I hope the feds find him no longer useful and throw him under the bus, where he gets raped by packs of ferocious niggers with dicks the size of tallboys.