Fri 18 Jun 2010
The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , Democracy , Globalization/EmpireNo Comments
Glenn Greenwald Salon 6/18/10
On June 6, Kevin Poulsen and Kim Zetter of Wiredreported that a 22-year-old U.S. Army Private in Iraq, Bradley Manning, had been detained after he “boasted” in an Internet chat — with convicted computer hacker Adrian Lamo — of leaking to WikiLeaks the now famous Apache Helicopter attack video, a yet-to-be-published video of a civilian-killing air attack in Afghanistan, and “hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records.”  (more…)