I think this is the real reason they dropped the hammer so much on the “Pentagon Leaker.” The documents aren’t terribly derogatory — some of them even seem over-shaded to make the U.S. look good — but no one reading them could doubt we’re essentially at war, and committed to escalating.
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Are you buying the story that a 21 yo low level IT guy in the Air National Guard would have access to that kind of intel?
The leak is proof of what anyone paying attention already knew anyway. I used to believe the US was a nation of laws, but it is really just a notion of laws.
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> The documents aren't terribly derogatory some of them even seem _over-shaded to make the U.S. look good_
Is that because patriots tend to reinforce the lies they want to believe; or rather, are you suggesting this was a planned leak, the boy being just a patsy that someone used to disseminate this information?