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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.'"
Yes, hilarious. A man's life ruined based on lies of a greedy reporter. ROFLMAO ... NOT!
You mean kinda like the lies that Manning told when he swore to obey the orders of the President, and the officers appointed over him?
Yeah.
Fuck 'im. His life is ruined because of his own actions - blaming a reporter is ludicrous.
Besides, the information wanted to be free! The public had a right to know! Etc. etc. <insert more platitudes here>
You are sympathizing with a traitor. It doesn't matter what country a person hails from - or how they feel about others or openness or whatever else, if you betray the people to whom you owe everything for you becoming whatever you might be, you can no longer even be considered Human. Bradley Manning is a piece of shit that deserves to rot in the lowest pits of Hell.
blah blah blah, fuck you and your nationalism.
And the fact its modded up really shows how sadistic you people are. Whether you like what Lamo did or not, nobody deserves to be physically assaulted for it.
Wishing for someone to be so violently killed is a reprehensible and vile thought. You should be ashamed of yourselves and the moderators should be ashamed for letting this comment stand.
How about you reserve some of your anger towards Manning who betrayed his country and his people for leaking those documents?
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.
Our culture doesn't get smarter, it just finds new ways of being retarded.