U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe

[Dark Tangent]

Re: U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe

I believe that he might have called the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10255887.stm

Everything is "Mr. Lano said ..." Sounds like he called them to me.

What are your thoughts, DT? He do the right thing?

S

Seems strange, like he wants all the attention instead of informing the authorities and letting them deal with it. He was doing live chat interviews a couple hours ago according to twitter. Wonder how he met and knew the analyst?

[Thorn]

Re: U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe

Lamo is the right thing, and any sentence short of a firing squad is lenient.

[hydruh]

Re: U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe

I believe that he might have called the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10255887.stm

Everything is "Mr. Lano said ..." Sounds like he called them to me.

What are your thoughts, DT? He do the right thing?

S

[Dark Tangent]

Re: U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe

So how did Adrian get identified?

If he went to the FBI they would protect his identity. Did he want to be identified?

[hydruh]

Re: U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe

So Lano did the right thing, in your opinion?

S

[theprez98]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/leak/

Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned.

Twitter is abuzz today with this story. Many are praising Bradley Manning as a hero and whistleblower. Many others are calling Adrian Lamo a snitch for turning him in (Manning chatted with Lamo and admitted his actions to him). Not only did Manning take credit for releasing the "Collateral Murder" video, but also "260,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables".

While I don't condone it, I can understand why someone would release the video. Even then, Wikileaks' analysis was miserably flawed. But no one could convince me that he even read, much less understood the context, of 260,000 diplomatic cables, and that by doing so he felt compelled to release them.

Espionage, pure and simple. He ought to be spending many years at Leavenworth and he'll deserve every one of them.