Wired Releases Full Manning/Lamo Chat Logs

bill_mcgonigle writes "After more than a year, Wired has finally released the (nearly) full chat logs between Adrian Lamo and Bradley Manning. Glen Greenwald provides analysis of what Wired previously left out. Greenwald writes: 'Lamo lied to and manipulated Manning by promising him the legal protections of a journalist-source and priest-penitent relationship, and independently assured him that their discussions were "never to be published" and were not "for print." Knowing this, Wired hid from the public this part of their exchange, published the chat in violation of Lamo's clear not-for-publication pledges, allowed Lamo to be quoted repeatedly in the media over the next year as some sort of credible and trustworthy source driving reporting on the Manning case.'"

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Re:Blah Blah Blah

[darjen]

blah blah blah, fuck you and your nationalism.

Re:Facts: Lets be clear on some facts here

[Sparx139]

While I agree that the impact was overhyped, I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss it as harmless. Sure, there's been no lives lost overseas as a result of the logs, but the jobs of diplomats would have gotten a bit trickier after the release of those cables. If you've ever been caught in between two of your friends that are feuding, you know how tricky it is to remain impartial. Now imagine doing that with entire nations, whilst navigating all kinds of bureaucracy, and those nations are staring at each other (and you) wondering if there's going to be a political falling out, or war. If that isn't enough, add a partial dump of various negotiations (ripe for misinterpretation) and suddenly the task of keeping everyone happy just got even more complicated. And as naive as it sounds, perhaps the reason for the lack of transparency isn't necessarily to hide embarrassing logs from the public, but instead to try and keep diplomacy as simple as possible.

As a disclaimer/apology, I haven't read all the available material, and it was too long ago to pull out any examples to support what I'm saying. Also, I'm an Aussie, so any information that I get on US affairs is pretty limited.