How Wired Magazine Helped The US Government Try To Frame Julian Assange (And Failed)

[EFerrari]

We've learned a few important things from the full transcripts of Bradley Manning's online chats with Adrian Lamo. Glenn Greenwald has already focussed on how with-holding the full transcripts has damaged the reputations of Manning, Assange and WikiLeaks. But it's worth examining in more detail exactly how Wired's subterfuge has affected Julian Assange and WikiLeaks in particular.

Firstly, and most importantly, it's now clear that Julian Assange did NOT know if Bradley Manning was the source who leaked the US cables to WikiLeaks. Manning tells Lamo that Assange “knows little about me” and “he takes source-protections uber-seriously.” Furthermore, he says, Assange "won’t work with you if you reveal too much about yourself.” Assange even instructs Manning to lie about his identity!

This blows apart the US government's protracted efforts to suggest that Assange actively enticed Manning to hand over the cables, and thereby charge the Australian with criminal activity. In fact, it was only through his own protracted sleuth work that Manning even knew who HE was talking to: "it took me four months to confirm that the person i was communicating was in fact assange".

Why would Wired with-hold this critically important information, unless they were actively co-operating with US agents trying to fabricate charges against Assange? Given that Lamo had notified authorities of Manning's alleged actions while still continuing to chat with him, it's logical to assume the Feds would have wanted to censor any published details. Wired appears to have willingly complied.

http://jaraparilla.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-wired-magazine-helped-us-government.html

[fascisthunter]

1. Who Owns "Wired"?

[EFerrari]

3. I don't know. That's a good question. n/t

[Aerows]

4. Condé Nast n/t

[fascisthunter]

5. thanks!

geez... they own alot!

[EOTE]

8. I remember hearing a poster here suggesting that they were owned by the CIA or FBI.

Sounded rather conspiratorial to me at the time, but now I'm having a hard time doubting it.

[EFerrari]

9. Pentagon and CIA had programs where they place people at media

outlets. No need to own anything.

lol

[fascisthunter]

10. enter Judith Miller? Maybe?

[suffragette]

2. K&R

[rhett o rick]

6. R&K

[Luminous Animal]

7. K & R.

[sabrina 1]

11. It was Glenn Greenwald who forced Wired to even admit

that they had selectively published the conversation and then HE ended up on the list of people to smear.

It's at the point now where you have to assume that there are few sources that can be trusted and as soon as you see people trying to hide facts, that is a good indicator that something is wrong.

I wonder why Wired chose to reveal this now?

[nashville_brook]

12. k and r

[myrna minx]

13. K&R n/t

[AlabamaLibrul]

14. (1:55:10 PM) [e-mail]: i told you, none of this is for print

Asshole.

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