Let's talk about Adrian Lamo, the guy who outed the WikiLeaks leaker, Bradley Manning

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Whew! Just spent hours reading the Greenwald article and the bazillion comments thereafter, AND listening to the hour long semi-torture session aka the audio interview between Glenn and Lamo, which can be found here:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/18/wikileaks/index.html

But first I just have to get this off of my chest: for those who were fans of The Wire, you'll get this reference--Adrian Lamo reminds me of Ziggy Sobotka!





I don't even know what to say about it right now, just letting it all sink it and processing it. At first I thought this Lamo guy must be some hard core idealistic right wing pseudo patriotic type, but now I have a completely different opinion of him and his motivation for doing what he did. It's looking like a real Greek tragedy sort of thing.

Anyone else been following this closely? Listened to the interview with Glenn? Thoughts?

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1. Let me add a few things

The most important revelation that came out of the audio interview, imho, was that Lamo had suggested at least two separate times to Manning that he could legally treat the discussion as confidential; first as a journalist and secondly, as an ordained minister. Lamo claimed that the reason he didn't treat Manning's "confession" as confidential was because--get this--Manning didn't specifically take Lamo up on the offer(s)! Of course, neither did Manning give Lamo the go-ahead to rat him out.

Just astounding!

Really, go listen to the interview, it will give you a whole other sense of who this guy is.

Oh, and that admission by Lamo on tape to Glenn also raises troubling questions as to how much of the chat transcript was published in the Wired piece, because clearly those offers of confidentiality were not so included.

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2. Fine. I'll just keep posting what I find.

One line from his chat log with Manning:

(1:52:54 PM) Adrian: i've been considering helping wikileaks with opsec

In some ways, this could be the silver lining to him having outed Manning. Can you imagine if Lamo had gotten involved with Wikileaks in some sort of security position??? Holy cow, thank our lucky stars that he outted himself as a rat before that could happen!!