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Wired Releases Full Manning/Lamo Chat Logs

Posted by timothy on from the crossed-fingers-legally-binding dept.

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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  1. Re:What A Disgusting Comment by fredrated · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Get off your high horse and pull your head out of your arse, Manning did this country a service on the order of the Pentagon Papers release. Some people actually want to know what our country is doing to others as opposed to burying our heads in the sand.

  2. Re:Oath by Methos137 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Then I ask what the UCMJ says about when the Constitution is at odds with the current PotUS or the Order of the Officers above him? Or in any combination? At what point does the soldiers responsibility become to defend the Constitution of the United States against *all* enemies, foreign and domestic, even if those enemies are the President and the appointed officers?

  3. Re:Facts: Lets be clear on some facts here by LordLimecat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There was far too much information marked top secret for no true reason other than protecting the image of certain diplomats doing stuff they shouldn't be.

    And this terrible crime is truly worth having our clearanced military personelle deciding that its time to violate his oaths and divulge whatever information he saw fit-- even that which shows no "horrible crimes"-- to the entire world.

    Truly we want a vigilante system where oaths arent worth the paper theyre printed on.

  4. Re:Netcraft Confirms It by dcollins · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic"

    Mission Accomplished. (Especially the "against domestic enemies" of the Constitution part.)

    --
    We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes