Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested

svelemor writes "A 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst was ratted out by a fellow hacker, accused of providing the Collateral Murder video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to Wikileaks. He is currently imprisoned in Kuwait."

Comments

"Lamo"

[Anonymous Coward]

Lamo's last name is a stunningly accurate characterization of his actions in this case. Might I amend it to say "piece of shit?"

Re:The flip side

[Swampash]

To be classified as Top Secret, the release of that information must cause imminent, serious harm to the United States and/or its allies and assets.

If you actually believe that, I have a bridge you may be interested in.

Glad to see him in Jail - Long May he stay there

[gadlaw]

The guy had a classified job and a duty to perform that job. His actions jeopardized and continues to jeopardize the lives of American and Nato soldiers so there isn't a hole in the ground deep enough for him to be sent to. The videos he provided have been edited down and turned into propaganda to be used against the United States. The US Military needs to use some common sense security so that crap doesn't happen again.

Re:Feh

[DavidTC]

AK-47s are perfectly legal for Iraqi civilians to own

I wonder how much overlap between people arguing that 'carrying a AK-47 makes you look like an insurgent' and people who defending their 2nd amendment right to walk around armed everywhere in the US.

Hey, idiots, they have a right to carry AK-47s, and they're in a war zone. Perhaps you should apply some of that 'for self defense' logic that you use to argue that you should have the right carry around handguns, and, you know, apply it to a war zone. What would you be carrying in Iraq?

And, for the record, despite being on the left, before anyone assumes otherwise, I'm anti-gun control, or at least only in favor of the weakest sort, aka, no automatic weapons. (Not on constitutional grounds but more on the grounds gun control doesn't work, and concealed carry is pretty good at reducing crime.)

And if I was living in an area where two parties regularly carried out firefights with automatic weapons (Regardless of which side I supported.), I suspect I wouldn't be in favor of even that restriction, and I'd probably own one of them.