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August 09, 2010

The Wikileaker's DADT Isolation
Posted by Jacob Stokes

MANNING-articleInline The more we find out about Pfc. Bradley Manning, the intel analyst who allegedly leaked thousands of classified documents and at least one video to Wikileaks, the more sad and desperate the whole situation appears to be. The NYT fleshes out some details today:

[Pfc. Manning] spent part of his childhood with his father in the arid plains of central Oklahoma, where classmates made fun of him for being a geek. He spent another part with his mother in a small, remote corner of southwest Wales, where classmates made fun of him for being gay.

Then he joined the Army, where, friends said, his social life was defined by the need to conceal his sexuality under “don’t ask, don’t tell” and he wasted brainpower fetching coffee for officers.

The second paragraph really caught my attention because it gets to the heart of the most fundamental reason why the DADT policy is broken: because it asks soldiers—those tasked with fighting and dying for their country and those tasked with safeguarding sensitive national security information—to lie. It asks them to purposely misrepresent who they are. That flies in the face of the military’s culture of honor, courage and equality. The policy means that even an otherwise upright soldier who is gay can never be fully himself or herself to fellow service people.

This argument is not to excuse what Pfc. Manning allegedly did, which was against the law and almost surely endangered the lives of Americans and Afghans in the field while revealing little new information about the war in Afghanistan. Nor am I saying that the DADT policy was the sole driver behind Pfc. Manning alleged decision to leak the information. It’s clear that there were a number of factors and motivations at work.

But the story clearly states how Pfc. Manning’s homosexuality isolated him within the force. Manning had joined the army, as the article says, “to try to give his life some direction and to help to pay for college.” He sought guidance from the military and was met with institutional discrimination. Surely the imperative to hide his homosexuality pushed Pfc. Manning further and further into isolation, and he eventually (allegedly) cracked. Pfc. Manning did what he could to gain acceptance within the community of hackers who had befriended and accepted him when the military wouldn’t—he leaked the material.

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