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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."
What a dumbass.
There are ways, such as Congressional investigations, to out that sort of stuff. Plastering it on the web works but isn't exactly brilliant.
Example:
Find Congresscritter(s) with adequate security clearance and appropriate record of stirring shit. Give them a detailed verbal brief including the docs and their location. Have THEIR legal eagles work out a procedure for accessing the material.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
I loved how nobody bothered to point out that there were rocket launchers and AK-47's in the collateral murder video.
Did you bother to point out that there were children in a van that was being loaded with a wounded journalist that got blasted to hell?
Anti war people are so gullible.
And pro-war people aren't? "Iraq has WMDs! Oops, we mean they don't." "If we go to Afghanistan, we can capture and/or kill bin Laden! Oops, I mean we can't."
Come on. Seriously? You're acusing anti-war folks of being gullible?
Living With a Nerd
There was never any doubt about the authenticity of the videos - the military admitted they were real. What they argued was that the videos didn't show the context in which there had been combat nearby.
Now, how nearby combat affects whether you can shoot at people retrieving the wounded without violating the Geneva Conventions is a different question. What is very clear, though, is that this is a small taste of what the Iraq War really looks like, and that some soldiers under the sort of combat pressure end up thinking along the lines of "Anyone who runs is an insurgent. Anyone who doesn't run is a well-disciplined insurgent."
I am officially gone from
With the IDF and the US military attempting old timey propaganda in a twitter/Flickr/YouTube/WikiLeaks world it really makes you wonder if they even care any more so long as the (middle aged)+ who watch TV for all their news don't catch on. The IDF manipulated an audio recording to make it appear as if captains were shouting antisemitic obscenities, 15 minutes after they posted it, it was revealed as a fake online; but CNN and Foxnews were reporting on it the whole weekend. When I tell my mom stuff like this, she says she does not believe me because FoxNews wouldn't report it if it were fake.
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
So you know, in addition to the videos and diplomatic cables he was out and about bragging about this and discussing major operations and their code words.
The same article states that Adrian Lamo is a journalist. We have no idea what the context of their talks were, or whether Agent Manning was bragging or not. It is entirely possible that he was merely talking to a journalist that he thought he could trust, and Lamo thought he would get a better story by burning his source.
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I supported the Iraq war, and I was kidding myself. This video made me realize the kind of horrific things that 'normally' happen to civilians in war. Now I am absolutely against anything but a truly defensive war.