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This recent unlawful disclosure of classified national security documents caused America to breach its duty to many countries ones which are our strategic allies but which is especially tragic and harming to our national character is the betrayal to Ukraine in this time of war for these good people who are fighting for their survival! The fact that these leaks were not as a result of a foreign espionage effort but rather from a 21 year old national guardsmen who worked as an IT specialist who disclosed this classified information to improve his reputation amongst a group of people he met on a social media website doesn't mitigate the harm he did to America and directly to our important ally Ukraine.
When one considers the major earthquake size classified document leaks of Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning one should conclude that America's leaders need to get their act together and protect the country's interests and character. Wisdom seems to me to call for the policy that America should have separate data centers, computer networks or servers and the like for major areas of national security interests, don't go crazy just what ordinary people would think this is a whole major subject, where for the data center for one subject that data center is only accessible for government workers that work on that subject. For example, you would have a data center on Ukraine and another data center on China and another data center on North Korea, etc. and only cleared government workers that are working on the subject of the data center would have access to the respective data center this way you would cut down on the chances of the current scenario occurring in the future where you have a security leaker that metaphorically just takes a machine and just mows down America's interests with a whole slew of countries because the person has access to classified information on so many different topics; honestly, the harm this 21 year old caused cannot be fully repaired!
The other thing that wisdom calls for is that in regards to these computer data record systems, users and I mean nobody should have the ability to print the computer records or download the computer records to an external storage device if the users needs to show some douments in the system to high level officers or national security officials allow the user to download the record to a file in the original storage data system that would be accessible for that user for say 72 hours where if he or she was going to a meeting in the White House or Pentagon or CIA Headquarters they could access only that file from a conference room in the respective building but only view the file no printing and no download! Printing and Downloading should be seen as a problem because that facilitates or enables the leaker to leak the documents to unauthorized users.
The Department of Justice should create an outstanding deterrent with the prosecution of this 21 year old national guardsman it doesn't matter that he had no malicious intent he broke the law and innocent people specifically Ukrainian soldiers will almost certainly die because of his leak of this classified information. In the media it was reported that the leaked documents contain information about the Ukrainian counter attacking units being assembled and trained in and outside of Ukraine and the weapon systems they will have; this will cost Ukrainian soldiers lives. Because if the Russians know how many fighting vehicles, armored troop carriers, howitzers and tanks each of the nine counter-attacking brigades will have when these brigades actually launch their counter-attack the Russian Generals will know how much Russian military resources they need to move to block the counter attack and as the counter-attacking battle unfolds and Russian command sees how many Ukrainian weapon systems they have destroyed they will be able to assess the counter-attacking potential of the remaining Ukrainian brigade and they can adjust the deployment of their forces to complete the blocking action, this leak just gave valuable military intelligence to Russian commanders to help them effectively deploy their resources along the entire battlefield front. The stark meaning of this is that Ukrainian soldiers will be killed and wounded because Russian Generals have been given this edge in deploying their forces. This national guardsman that leaked this incredibly sensitive military intelligence on the Ukraine military deserves at minimum a twenty-five year prison sentence; this is such an egregiously bad act here betraying Ukrainian soldiers who are fighting a war giving their lives that will spare American men and women having to fight this Putin Army in ten to fifteen years it would be morally just to give this guy a sentence of capital punishment!
When one considers the major earthquake size classified document leaks of Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning one should conclude that America's leaders need to get their act together and protect the country's interests and character. Wisdom seems to me to call for the policy that America should have separate data centers, computer networks or servers and the like for major areas of national security interests, don't go crazy just what ordinary people would think this is a whole major subject, where for the data center for one subject that data center is only accessible for government workers that work on that subject. For example, you would have a data center on Ukraine and another data center on China and another data center on North Korea, etc. and only cleared government workers that are working on the subject of the data center would have access to the respective data center this way you would cut down on the chances of the current scenario occurring in the future where you have a security leaker that metaphorically just takes a machine and just mows down America's interests with a whole slew of countries because the person has access to classified information on so many different topics; honestly, the harm this 21 year old caused cannot be fully repaired!
The other thing that wisdom calls for is that in regards to these computer data record systems, users and I mean nobody should have the ability to print the computer records or download the computer records to an external storage device if the users needs to show some douments in the system to high level officers or national security officials allow the user to download the record to a file in the original storage data system that would be accessible for that user for say 72 hours where if he or she was going to a meeting in the White House or Pentagon or CIA Headquarters they could access only that file from a conference room in the respective building but only view the file no printing and no download! Printing and Downloading should be seen as a problem because that facilitates or enables the leaker to leak the documents to unauthorized users.
The Department of Justice should create an outstanding deterrent with the prosecution of this 21 year old national guardsman it doesn't matter that he had no malicious intent he broke the law and innocent people specifically Ukrainian soldiers will almost certainly die because of his leak of this classified information. In the media it was reported that the leaked documents contain information about the Ukrainian counter attacking units being assembled and trained in and outside of Ukraine and the weapon systems they will have; this will cost Ukrainian soldiers lives. Because if the Russians know how many fighting vehicles, armored troop carriers, howitzers and tanks each of the nine counter-attacking brigades will have when these brigades actually launch their counter-attack the Russian Generals will know how much Russian military resources they need to move to block the counter attack and as the counter-attacking battle unfolds and Russian command sees how many Ukrainian weapon systems they have destroyed they will be able to assess the counter-attacking potential of the remaining Ukrainian brigade and they can adjust the deployment of their forces to complete the blocking action, this leak just gave valuable military intelligence to Russian commanders to help them effectively deploy their resources along the entire battlefield front. The stark meaning of this is that Ukrainian soldiers will be killed and wounded because Russian Generals have been given this edge in deploying their forces. This national guardsman that leaked this incredibly sensitive military intelligence on the Ukraine military deserves at minimum a twenty-five year prison sentence; this is such an egregiously bad act here betraying Ukrainian soldiers who are fighting a war giving their lives that will spare American men and women having to fight this Putin Army in ten to fifteen years it would be morally just to give this guy a sentence of capital punishment!
