Bradley Manning

I have no sympathy for Bradley Manning.  He is getting what he deserves.  That being said, I do not understand how it is a private in the Army had access to such highly classified material.  The Army I served in (WW II) a private was the lowest of the low in the pecking order.  We were not allowed anywhere near classified material.  Manning not only had access but was able to steal it (no doubt bypassing security checks) and give it to WikiLeaks which resulted in exposing him.  How was a lowly private able to do that?

Retired Colonel Peters on FoxNews said the Army is partly to blame much like the case of the Fort Hood killer, Nidal Hasan.  The Army in its progressive political correctness failed to act on obvious red flags about both these characters thus they slipped (or more likely passed) through the security net with disastrous consequences.

Makes one wonder how many more are compromising classified materials.  Think Snowden.