Wikileaks Source Outed To Stroke Hacker's Own Ego 347
Binary Boy writes "Bradley Manning, the US Army private arrested recently by the Pentagon for providing classified documents — including the widely seen Apache helicopter video — may have been duped by wannabe hacker Adrian Lamo, according to Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com. Lamo told Manning he could provide protection under both journalist shield laws, and the clergy-lay confidentiality tradition, and instead immediately turned him in to authorities in an act of apparent shameless self-promotion."
The article also goes into Wired's role in the whole situation, the strange, sometimes sensationalist media coverage, and the odd similarity between this case and proposed scenarios in a US Intelligence report from earlier this year aimed at undermining Wikileaks.
Re:First rule of breaking the law (Score:3, Funny)
Precisely. I don't go round bragging about the various politicians and CEOs that have "disappeared" over the years. Ooops
I shouldna told ya that.
Re:So.... (Score:1, Funny)
Oh yeah, because their track record is SO GOOD against outnumbered, outgunned dudes out in the middle of nowhere.
Re:details? (Score:1, Funny)
"Oh good. I can trust you then. Heh heh heh heh." - George Duh Bush
Re:details? (Score:1, Funny)
-1 Troll? Jeez. Would it have been funnier if I wrote:
"Oh good. I can..... just a minute my teleprompter froze up..... uh, I can, you know, trust you... uh... with my... with the... uh, secret communique." - Barak Øbama