re: "Welcome to the 21st Century!"

Steve at Dead Men Working shares his evaluation.

Money quote(s):

"(O)f course, the fact that this person was able to gather so many documents indicates a lack of attention to the real first line of defense in the modern world: barriers to limit access to information to those who have a real need to know it, and tripwires to call attention to the kind of broad gathering of information that the perpetrator, Pfc. Bradley Manning, engaged in. SIPRNet, of course, has such barriers and such tripwires. But they were relaxed in Iraq, and apparently poorly monitored, and clearly, they failed."