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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. Netcraft Confirms It by MasterOfMagic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Adrian Lamo and Kevin Poulsen are rats and not to be trusted, and Wired is no longer the magazine of record for the technology industry. I have officially cancelled by subscription, and I seriously suggest that anybody who is interested in such a trashy rag read Vallywag for free.

    For more evidence of Adrian Lamo being a lying rat bastard, listen to him try to explain himself as following his conscience in Informants Panel at The Next HOPE.

    PS: He also lies about never having been controlling or being the subject of a restraining order. He is a real piece of trash.

    1. Re:Netcraft Confirms It by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      "PS: He also lies about never having been controlling or being the subject of a restraining order. He is a real piece of trash."

      Which all wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that he himself committed hacking offences some years ago and was trying to get everyone onside with shit along the lines of "Oh I was just doing it to try and bring attention to security problems".

      The guy is the worst fucking kind of hypocrite, when he breaks the law claiming he was doing it for the good of the country and businesses it's one thing, but someone else does it and he's straight to the FBI.

      Lamo is hypocritical scum of the highest order. He should be in that jail cell simply for being a massive cunt, not Manning.

  2. Wired Lies by jdev · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The worst part is they have allowed lies to go unchallenged for all this time. And they have lied to cover their own ass in the process. Take a look at this tweet. This is Evan Hansen, the editor in chief at Wired magazine, stating clearly that they have released all relevant portions of the chat logs concerning Manning and Wikileaks.

    Now check out this portion of the chat logs.

    MANNING: he (Julian Assange) knows very little about me
    MANNING: he takes source protection uber-seriously
    MANNING: "lie to me" he says
    LAMO: Really. Interesting.
    MANNING: he wont work with you if you reveal too much about yourself

    This explicitly states that Manning and Assange have almost no relationship. Assange doesn't want to know the guy. Yet lies have persisted for this past year saying that Assange coaxed the documents out of Manning. The feds were trying to build a case against Manning based on that assumption. But the chat logs clearly state the opposite is true.

    Wired has lied for a year on the subject and has no credibility. How Evan Hansen is still employed there is beyond my understanding.