Boy, you can’t say Ciaramella on Facebook or Wikipedia, but you can here! It feels so good! Ciaramella.

There are a lot of people who can be trust with classifications, like me, but they should make an effort at it. Snowden isn’t a whistleblower, he was a data bomber.

assange never took anyones data, he only broadcast what was given to him. None of the examples are appropriate.

Because of the job I was supposed to work in when I entered the Air Force in 1980, I had a very high clearance. I wound up doing something else and never really needed the clearance, but it was still there. I once was sent to fetch some stuff from the base command post because I was the only person on duty with the right clearance. My unit commander did not have it, although I was authorized to give him the docs once I had them.

So how does a low-ranking guardsman get access to such documents? The military intelligence wing would have a whole bunch of such things, in case they deploy alongside active-duty units. And it’s not officers who receive, process and file such documents. It’s low-ranking, but cleared, clerks.

So that’s how. I have serious mixed feelings about this whole thing. Bradley Manning, Winner Reality, Snowden et al, may have done us a favor by releasing such information. But they are not supposed to. They’re supposed to follow the rules and regs, and should they not, they’re supposed to be punished.

Of course, the head of the FBI should not be leaking either. And when we know Comey did just that, and even brags about it, it makes it pretty difficult to justify punishing some E-4.