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Bradley Manning has announced that he wishes to be called Chelsea and become a woman. Don't you find it ironic that a man who was so free with US state secrets was keeping one himself? And how did it come about that the US had a mere private who had access to such material and who, prima facie, was far from the ideal soldier (and I don't count his wish to change gender as any part of his lack of idealness) ?
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it doesn't appear to have been a secret. He/she sent a supervisor a photo showing him/her in female clothing, labelled "My problem". The supervisor seems not to have done anything about it. It does raise questions about oversight; I don't know what a supervisor's job specs are, but you'd think looking into something like this would be part of it.
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that's the really odd thing, FredPuli - disregarding J Edgar (who was the boss), you'd think that, whatever the personal ramifications of being the wrong sex, it might make you a security problem because it would make you blackmailable.
Then again, Manning wasn't blackmailed as far as I know, so maybe it's not really a problem any more.
Then again, Manning wasn't blackmailed as far as I know, so maybe it's not really a problem any more.
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I think the number of situations where someone's sexuality would leave them open for blackmail is shrinking year on year.
There are certain people, for whom, it must still be a major worry (Hollywood leading men for instance), closeted married people etc.
But in terms of being blackmailed because of your profession in the secret service? I dunno.
"If you don't pass the documents on, I will reveal that you're gay/a cross-dresser"
"Okay then...perhaps you might want to start with all my Facebook friends, but they probably already know, seeing as they've all seen me dressed up in my posted photos over the past couple of years..."
I think the number of situations where someone's sexuality would leave them open for blackmail is shrinking year on year.
There are certain people, for whom, it must still be a major worry (Hollywood leading men for instance), closeted married people etc.
But in terms of being blackmailed because of your profession in the secret service? I dunno.
"If you don't pass the documents on, I will reveal that you're gay/a cross-dresser"
"Okay then...perhaps you might want to start with all my Facebook friends, but they probably already know, seeing as they've all seen me dressed up in my posted photos over the past couple of years..."
No Fred it should be
what is the adjective to describe someone who leaks his nations secrets and lets his own hang out as well.
we knew he dressed as a woman before the case began
(DT not Daily Mail - which presumably took its usual holier than thou attitude.)
James Morris if you recollect sudduv went up Everest in 1953 and came down as Jan Morris.
and what about the Chevalier d'Eon ? didnt he serve Louis XVI loyally as a woman in St Petersburg and a man in London ?
what is the adjective to describe someone who leaks his nations secrets and lets his own hang out as well.
we knew he dressed as a woman before the case began
(DT not Daily Mail - which presumably took its usual holier than thou attitude.)
James Morris if you recollect sudduv went up Everest in 1953 and came down as Jan Morris.
and what about the Chevalier d'Eon ? didnt he serve Louis XVI loyally as a woman in St Petersburg and a man in London ?
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