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Wikileaks Source Outed To Stroke Hacker's Own Ego
Binary Boy writes "Bradley Manning, the US Army private arrested recently by the Pentagon for providing classified documents — including the widely seen Apache helicopter video — may have been duped by wannabe hacker Adrian Lamo, according to Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com. Lamo told Manning he could provide protection under both journalist shield laws, and the clergy-lay confidentiality tradition, and instead immediately turned him in to authorities in an act of apparent shameless self-promotion."
The article also goes into Wired's role in the whole situation, the strange, sometimes sensationalist media coverage, and the odd similarity between this case and proposed scenarios in a US Intelligence report from earlier this year aimed at undermining Wikileaks.
Because only Francophones use french words when writing in English. Anyway, the Quebecois would do that to any Anglos, not just Americans.
> So, it sounds like Manning was "boasting" about it.
Exactly. But when push came to shove, Lamo had a conscience and did the right thing. Sorry pinheads, if we let every junior officer who goes kostard decide to dump half the damned diplomatic traffic for the last decade there just ain't no way we can run a government. If you don't like the way things are get off your sorry, get educated and VOTE. Vote like your life depends on it.. because these dark days it pretty much does.
Democrat delenda est