"How the Pentagon Hopes to Prevent More Embarrassment" - Nov. 29 online article from Atlantic Monthly
http://news.yahoo.com/s/atlantic/20101129/cm_atlantic/howthepentagonhopestopreventmorewikileaksembarrassments5961_1
How Were the Files Leaked? The Guardian's David Leigh explains that the cables arrived at his newspaper on an "innocuous-looking memory stick," whose 1.6 gigabytes of text files contained 251,287 dispatches. The leaker is suspected to be Bradley Manning, a 22-year-old soldier, who reportedly confessed to stealing the info while he was downrange. "It was childishly easy," Leigh writes, noting Bradley bragged, "I would come in with music on a CD-RW labelled with something like 'Lady Gaga' … erase the music … then write a compressed split file. No one suspected a thing ... [I] had unprecedented access to classified networks 14 hours a day 7 days a week for 8+ months."
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