The release of more than 100 apparently highly classified US documents has got the defense, intelligence and (not least) the media communities in a spin. But all might not be as it seems.
The person responsible for the leak of hundreds of classified Pentagon documents may be a 20-year-old gun enthusiast who worked at a military base and was trying to impress an Internet chat group with his revelations. The Washington Post interviewed a teenage member of the group, who described the man, referred to by the initials…