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In reply to the discussion: What is the reason the GLBT Community doesn't support Bradley Manning? [View all]AnalystInParadise
(1,832 posts)Organized military intelligence unit? Good grief, I don't know those other people from Adam but I can and do tend to trust people in the community that know what the hell they are talking about when it comes to regulations and the facts behind the Manning case. I don't even know how laughably insane it is, that you think an organized Military Intelligence Unit (your words, not mine) would go to a message board and try to do any kind of work. What freaking paranoid world do you live in? I am a retired 35F which means All Source Analyst, my job is about as far away from Message Board Warrior as one can get. If you want to talk about North Korean Order of Battle, Shia Islam or trends influencing SE Asia politics then I am your guy. Also if you want a FACTS based discussion on declassifying data and why Bradley Manning is a criminal, I am willing to have that discussion. But seriously dude, whatever you are smoking that leads to paranoia of this kind, please put it down. I am now a Defense Contractor that is a mentor for young Intelligence Soldiers that are new to the military. They used to have a term for that in the military, called a Master Analyst. However, the shrinking of the military led to the disbanding of the Master Analyst program in the late 1990's, so recently they brought it back using contractors and I am one of those people. You won't believe me and I mean DU no offense, but no team of Intelligence personnel is going to waste their time spreading anything around here, they have more important things to do. That is no slight on Democratic Underground, just a acknowledgement that there is nothing going on here that even warrants a second look by the government.