‘I Can’t Believe What I’m Confessing to You’: The Wikileaks Chats

[Donnachaidh]

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On May 21, 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning initiated a series of online chats with former hacker Adrian Lamo after a story on Lamo was published at Wired.com.

The chats continued over several days, during which Manning claimed that he was responsible for leaking classified material to the whistleblower site Wikileaks.

Lamo tipped off the FBI and the Army about Manning’s claims, and on May 26, Manning was seized by Army authorities and put into pre-trial detention in Kuwait. He remains in Kuwait while the Army Criminal Investigation Division and other agencies investigate whether he leaked classified information and determine if he should be charged with any crime.

Below are excerpts from the chat logs, which Lamo provided to Wired.com. As received by Wired, the logs contained timestamps but not dates, so the dates below are approximate. We have substituted the instant messenger screen names with real names. The excerpts represent about 25 percent of the logs. Portions of the chats that discuss deeply personal information about Manning or that reveal apparently sensitive military information are not included.

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[Duer 157099]

1. I still cannot understand Lamo's motive for turning Manning in

The chat transcript is eye-opening, though. Manning has some pretty damning things to say about how "secure" the intel actually is, and basically what a clusterfuck everything is. The poor guy. It's tough to have a conscience in an environment like that.

But this Lamo guy is just a great big pile of scum.

[Bucky]

2. Manning sounds like he was under a hell of a lot of stress & had no real help for it.

I guess war does that to some people.

[Ignis]

3. Wow, thanks for posting that. Great read!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. Big article about Wikileaks and Julian Assange in the New Yorker.

June 7th issue. May or may not be online.