He is going to do significant jail time.. At least twenty, I would not be surprised if he gets life.. The evidence and PFC Bradley's comments made this case extremely strong.. t is the largest security breach in our history, and for this he will be made an example out of..
Lets not pretend what occurred here. He arbitrarily dumped gigabytes worth of sensitive data, most he did not know what he was releasing, although he knew it was sensitive.... He wasn't performing an act of whistle-blowing, he was seeking to commit damage.... He is a PFC, if he had altruistic goals he should have approached his leadership, he didn't alert anyone of his concerns...... As a System Administrator, he knew he is not permitted to release anything, regardless of the content.. The reality is he did not have "need to know" purpose and thus he violated DoD rules for just reading it.. In the DoD, just because the data exists and one has permissions to this data, does not give him or her the authorization to read it..
Just read his published chat logs.. You will get an entirely different perspective on PFC Bradley... Thankfully he will break rocks into smaller ones and have plenty of time to do some soul searching.. Hero he is not..