„As these documents have apparently come out of Pentagon files, what does that tell us about the U.S. military's ability to keep a secret? Are U.S. battle and war plans also unprotected?
How is it that, thus far, only PFC Bradley Manning has been apprehended?
Who vetted Manning? Is it possible one 22-year-old with a computer and disks can get access to, download and transfer to anti-Americans the entire correspondence of the Department of State with U.S. embassies?
Some 250,000 documents - thousands classified as confidential, secret and »no foreign« distribution - were thieved.
Who was in charge of securing those secrets? Why have heads not rolled? What has happened to the idea of accountability?
A few years ago, a leak of the name of a single CIA analyst, Valerie Plame, had the national press in an uproar, with a grand jury impaneled and a special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, named to investigate the leak right up to and into the Oval Office, if necessary.
Vice President Cheney's aide, Scooter Libby, was prosecuted for lying about the leak. Karl Rove was hauled repeatedly before a grand jury.
Why is the Obama White House getting a pass when this national humiliation and diplomatic Pearl Harbor occurred on its watch?”