FBI Paid Informant Inside WikiLeaks

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Wired: "On an August workday in 2011, a cherubic 18-year-old Icelandic man named Sigurdur 'Siggi' Thordarson walked through the stately doors of the U.S. embassy in Reykjavik, his jacket pocket concealing his calling card: a crumpled photocopy of an Australian passport. The passport photo showed a man with a unruly shock of platinum blonde hair and the name Julian Paul Assange. Thordarson was long time volunteer for WikiLeaks with direct access to Assange and a key position as an organizer in the group. With his cold war-style embassy walk-in, he became something else: the first known FBI informant inside WikiLeaks. For the next three months, Thordarson served two masters, working for the secret-spilling website and simultaneously spilling its secrets to the U.S. government in exchange, he says, for a total of about $5,000. The FBI flew him internationally four times for debriefings, including one trip to Washington D.C., and on the last meeting obtained from Thordarson eight hard drives packed with chat logs, video and other data from WikiLeaks."

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Re:Cheap

[Motard]

"The freedom wars of the last decade?" Are you F'ng serious? Obviously you haven't seen a real war. It would turn your mind around pretty quick.

Re:Cheap

[BitZtream]

Yeah, if you're some Iraqi kid that the Americans shot from a helicopter for no particular reason?

You're seriously still bringing up the fucking video that clearly shows what you're saying is entirely untrue ... AND getting marked +5 insightful?

Its mind numbing how you can see reality in front of you and warp it into something entirely different. You sir, are completely out of touch with reality. You take a single event, edit the video in your favor, it still doesn't show what you claim, but none the less, you rant on.

People like you are why so many people trust the government. The government has far better propaganda and lies. Your propaganda and lies are so obvious its not even funny.