Thread: Manning faces new charges, possible death penalty

He will be made an example out of because he is enlisted and this is high profile. If he had a commission, he would have gotten a slap on the wrist. I have seen, in my work, an O6 do just as bad and instead of the O6 getting in trouble, we had a change in policy.

This type of spillage happens all the time, just not on such a grand scale. Once we had a chappy send home some stuff from SIPR to his Yahoo mail, another time we had a guy send out screencaps to some contractor's regular e-mail from SIPR and so on and so forth. And that is just the stuff I have seen in my time working on DoD networks. The difference for this guy and those guys was volume and intent. And so he will be made an example of...