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US ‘big secret’ that even private soldiers can see…
Exposing weak security devices in full force

How could a 21 year old soldier who had been in the army for less than two years read a pile of ‘secret’ and take it out without permission? The vulnerability of the US Department of Defense’s information handling system has been exposed to the world as the suspect in the leak of US classified documents that shook the world was revealed to be a ‘Private Private’ belonging to the National Guard. Unlike the CIA or the FBI, the Department of Defense was found to have had access to top secret information from thousands, not only high-ranking officials, but even private officers. According to the New York Times (NYT), Washington Post (WP), and CNN on the 13th (local time), classified defense information …