Is Wired Hiding Key Evidence On Bradley Manning?

Hugh Pickens writes "Glenn Greenwald writes in Salon that for more than six months, Wired's Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed but refuses to publish the key evidence in the arrest of US Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks' source. 'In late May, Adrian Lamo — at the same time he was working with the FBI as a government informant against Manning — gave Poulsen what he purported to be the full chat logs between Manning and Lamo in which the Army Private allegedly confessed to having been the source for the various cables, documents and video which WikiLeaks released throughout this year,' writes Greenwald. Wired has only published about 25% of the logs writes Greenwald and Poulsen's concealment of the chat logs is actively blinding journalists who have been attempting to learn what Manning did and did not do. 'Whether by design or effect, Kevin Poulsen and Wired have played a critical role in concealing the truth from the public about the Manning arrest,' concludes Greenwald. 'This has long ago left the realm of mere journalistic failure and stands as one of the most egregious examples of active truth-hiding by a "journalist" I've ever seen.'"

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Ethics lecture from a sock puppet

[Anonymous Coward]

Greenwald has a sock puppet past, so it is a bit hard to take his great moral indignation too seriously. Google Greenwald sock puppet to see the posts on the topic.

Greenwald must be bored

[cartoonduck]

with attacking all the other people who don't see his vast conspiracy theories and how everyone is against you. They're watching you right now! Pull the drapes! Maybe Wired just isn't following the new norm of shooting their mouth off without all the facts and are, you know, checking the sources and considering what the repercussions might be.

They are gonna release it soon

[santax]

Together with pictures of the WMD's in iraq. They guy is being set up. Put in isolation for months and soon he will sign a 'confession' that Assange put him up to it. If there is one thing we can learn from wikileaks, than it is that the US government easily falls under the terrorists-label. They can not, and should not, be trusted. Ask that german guy who was kidnapped and tortured by the cia if you believe different.

Re:wtf

[BitZtream]

Shrug, probably shouldn't have violated a military agreement then eh? He was made fully aware of the possible consequences of his actions before he was given access to the information.

He either accepted his fate and expected this and thought he was doing the right thing anyway, or, he didn't expect this in which case he will serve to show others that the military is indeed not joking about its enforcement of the rules regarding classified information. Either way, he violated a few laws and voluntary agreements he made. Now had he released information that was truly Earth shattering or world changing the public might give a shit about his plight. But he didn't release anything we didn't already know and did release things that the public DIDN'T need to know, basically all that came of it was a bunch of arguing and bickering on the Internet about if the US is Chaotic Good or Lawful Evil, or maybe even Chaotic Neutral if your a moderate. Really, no one cared enough to cause any change because of it.

And to be honest, I frankly don't give a fuck if 'psychological torture' is being performed. Yes, he's being annoyed, its like he lives with a 4-6 year old sister and is confined to his bed like a handicapped person, get some fucking perspective his life isn't that bad considering he's in prison. For someone like him, where he is now is far better off than being put in the general population where he will most certainly experience REAL torture.