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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:38 AM
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Salon: The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired (WikiLeaks)
Edited on Tue Dec-28-10 11:43 AM by Poll_Blind
From Greenwald at The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired:
For more than six months, Wired's Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed -- but refuses to publish -- the key evidence in one of the year's most significant political stories: the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks' source. In late May, Adrian Lamo -- at the same time he was working with the FBI as a government informant against Manning -- gave Poulsen what he purported to be the full chat logs between Manning and Lamo in which the Army Private allegedly confessed to having been the source for the various cables, documents and video that WikiLeaks released throughout this year. In interviews with me in June, both Poulsen and Lamo confirmed that Lamo placed no substantive restrictions on Poulsen with regard to the chat logs: Wired was and remains free to publish the logs in their entirety.

Despite that, on June 10, Wired published what it said was only "about 25 percent" of those logs, excerpts that it hand-picked. For the last six months, Poulsen has not only steadfastly refused to release any further excerpts, but worse, has refused to answer questions about what those logs do and do not contain. This is easily one of the worst journalistic disgraces of the year: it is just inconceivable that someone who claims to be a "journalist" -- or who wants to be regarded as one -- would actively conceal from the public, for months on end, the key evidence in a political story that has generated headlines around the world.

In June, I examined the long, strange and multi-layered relationship between Poulsen and Lamo, and in that piece raised the issue of Wired's severe journalistic malfeasance in withholding these chat logs. But this matter needs to be revisited now for three reasons:

(1) For the last six months, Adrian Lamo has been allowed to run around making increasingly sensationalistic claims about what Manning told him; journalists then prominently print Lamo's assertions, but Poulsen's refusal to release the logs or even verify Lamo's statements prevents anyone from knowing whether Lamo's claims about what Manning said are actually true.

(2) There are new, previously undisclosed facts about the long relationship between Wired/Poulsen and a key figure in Manning's arrest -- facts that Poulsen inexcusably concealed.

(3) Subsequent events gut Poulsen's rationale for concealing the logs and, in some cases, prove that his claims are false.

--snip--


Read the full article at the link!

Wired/Poulsen have been caught with their pants down and some of these and previous revelations about the strange relationship that Poulsen has with Lamo have left a bad taste in everyone's mouth. I guess the question a lot of people are asking is- with Poulsen and Wired continuing to stonewall at the expense of their own credibility, is there something more behind the situation than just the journalistic scam with Poulsen/Lamo?

An excellent primer on exactly how messed up this whole situation is can be found here:The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks. After reading it, I'd recommend looking over this post by me which clears up (to my satisfaction) one of the unanswered questions Greenwald had at the time. If they aren't altered, which is a good question given Lamo's mental state and publicity seeking fixation, the logs tell the tale of how much he manipulated Manning in order to get his name in Wired again.

It's not short reading though, Greenwald is all about the details.

PB
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Pavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:44 AM
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1. You mean they redacted the logs?
i think some of those cables I have read are redacted, so wired cant redact? Fuck, I'm confused, because a person is convicted of a crime and has received treatment for mental illness they can no longer be trusted?

Are those the new rules from GG?
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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 12:06 PM
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2. "Lamo is now the one driving many of the media stories about Manning and WikiLeaks even though...
"...Lamo (a) is a convicted felon, (b) was (as Poulsen strangely reported at the time) http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/lamo/">involuntarily hospitalized for severe psychiatric distress a mere three weeks before his chats with Manning, and (c) cannot keep his story straight about anything from one minute to the next."

:shrug:

PB

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Pavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 12:10 PM
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3. Soo, every person who has a felony record
and any mental illness can not be a witness? Its a hit piece, the logs are all that matter. GG is pimping for manning so to be expected. He already claims he was tortured, which is a joke.
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Vinnie From Indy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 02:26 PM
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8. What the hell would you know about it?
How do you know Manning was not tortured?
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nashville_brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 12:18 PM
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4. here's the KEY wikileaks TIMELINE -- important to the Lamo discussion
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nashville_brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 12:22 PM
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5. here's the Bradley Manning TIMELINE
http://firedoglake.com/bradley-manning-wikileaks-timeline/



Timeline:

2010:

December 24:

Manning releases a holiday message through his attorney, David Coombs

December 23:

David House writes at FDL: Bradley Manning Speaks About His Conditions
Dr. Jeffrey Kaye: Bradley Manning & the Torture That Is Solitary Confinement
UN says it will investigate Manning’s treatment
David House appears on MSNBC talking about Manning’s Detention

December 22:

Julian Assange tells Cenk Uygur that Bradley Manning is a “political prisoner”

December 19

David House visits Manning at Quantico brig

December 18

Manning’s attorney, David Coombs, writes a blogpost describing Manning’s conditions in the Quantico brig
The Independent reports that Manning is being offered a deal to roll on Julian Assange
David House visits Manning at Quantico brig

December 17

US military challenges allegations about Manning’s detention conditions
Daily Beast interviews Manning’s attorney, David Coombs, who backs up Glenn Greenwald’s reporting on Manning’s conditions
Guardian article on Manning’s deteriorating mental state, including interview with David House

December 16

Glenn Greenwald writes that the government is using techniques accused of being torture on Bradley Manning to get him to flip on Julian Assange
Charlie Savage of the New York Times uses Adrian Lamo as the sole source for an extremely dubious story on how Manning supposedly gave the cables to Wikileaks. Contra what he told CNN on July 30, Lamo says he doesn’t have chat logs because his hard drive was “taken” by the FBI.

December 15

Glenn Greenwald breaks the news about the harsh conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention

December 11

David House visits Manning at Quantico brig

November 9

Manning’s friend and supporter David House’s computer seized by customs’ agents and FBI

October 22

Wikileaks publishes Iraq War Diaries.

October 14

Assange scheduled for interview in Sweden he does not attend.
Late September: Assange leaves Sweden.

August 21

Sweden withdraws rape charges.

August 20:

Ms A and Ms W go to the police; news of their accusations leaked to the press.
Assange leaves Ms A’s apartment.

August 16

Assange meets up with Ms W again, they have consensual sex followed, the next morning, by allegedly non-consensual sex.

August 14

Assange’s talk in Stockholm. He goes to a movie with Ms W.

August 13

Ms A returns to Stockholm earlier than planned. That night she and Assange have consensual sex, though the condom breaks.

August 11

Assange arrives in Stockholm, stays at Ms A’s apartment.

August 2

Lamo now tells Wired he did not receive classified documents from Manning, and Uber was mistaken.

August 1

Lamo confirms Chet Uber’s initial version of events to Computerworld magazine, in which he says Lamo received classified documents from Manning, and called him about it in “early June.”
Lamo refuses to tell Wired whether he received classified documents from Manning or not.
Uber tells Wired he first spoke with Lamo “one or two days before Lamo had his first face-to-face meeting with federal agents, which was on May 25.”

July 30

Lamo tells CNN’s Ashley Fanz that he knew of one person in the military who had helped Bradley Manning but wouldn’t elaborate. Says he no longer has chat transcripts because he “gave” his hard drive to the FBI.

July 25

Wikileaks publishes Afghan War diaries.

July 6

US military announces it is pressing criminal charges against Manning for allegedly transferring classified data onto his personal computer and adding unauthorized software to a classified computer system.

June 28

Lamo issues statement hoping that Manning gets a plea deal and accusing Assange of exposing his role in the Manning arrest.

June 19

Boing-Boing publishes an allegedly more complete version of the alleged Lamo/Manning chats

June 18

Poulsen tells Glenn Greenwald that he published all of the chats that Lamo gave him, with the exception of “Manning discussing personal matters that aren’t clearly related to his arrest, or apparently sensitive government information that I’m not throwing up without vetting first.”
Greenwald compares Wired’s published chats with the Washington Post’s, and finds there are things that are neither “personal matters” nor “sensitive government information,” which Wired nonetheless withheld.

June 17

Glenn Greenwald interviews Lamo, who says he informed Manning he was an ordained minister who would treat Manning’s conversations as a confession, which would compel Lamo by law to keep them confidential

June 14

Using their Twitter account, Wikileaks directs their followers to the Boing-Boing comment alleging Lamo and Poulsen were working together with the FBI “in order to gain Manning’s trust and mislead him into confessing.”

June 13

Comment appears in Xeni Jardin Boing Boing article, alleging that Poulsen and Lamo “worked their target, Bradley Manning, for days — in co-operation with the FBI and US Army CID,” classic “COINTELPRO tactics.”
“The only reason to even think that PFC Manning was ‘risking lives’ is the unconfirmed innuendo made public by Adrian Lamo who has every reason in the world to justify the breach of trust he committed by willfully initiating a clandestine interrogation of PFC Manning,” says the comment.

June 11

Wikileaks commissions lawyers to defend Manning
Assange allegedly sends and email to Lamo requesting copies of the chats to aide in Manning’s defense. Lamo refuses, telling Poulsen that Manning’s attorney “can get them by discovery like everyone else.”

June 10

Wired Magazine posts the heavily redacted chats provided to them by Adrian Lamo
Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima also publishes redacted version of the chats

June 9

Lamo informs John Cook of Yahoo News he told Manning he was a journalist and offered to speak to him as a reporter, which would grant him protection under the shield law, and that Manning refused
Yahoo asks Lamo to provide that portion of their chats; Lamo says he will have to check with his lawyer

June 7

Julian Assange, on Twitter, casts doubt on the credibility of the Wired article: “Adrian Lamo & Kevin Poulson are notorious felons, informers & manipulators. Journalists should take care.”
Lamo tweets: “I was not acting as a journalist.”
Lamo issues a press release, saying he will respond by June 8 to “allegations that he was instrumental in the arrest of PFC Manning”
Washington Post denies they sat on Wikileaks video, but David Finkel evasively says he “was on book leave” from the paper when the Manning transcripts allege he acquired it

June 6

Poulsen and Kim Zetter of Wired Magazine report the arrest of Manning
They also report that a friend of Manning’s, Tyler Watkins, says Manning told him he had gotten his hands on sensitive information and was considering leaking it

June 1

Lamo lifts embargo on chat logs, per Poulsen

May 29

Manning arrested, according to his Charging Documents. He detained at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait.

May 27

Poulsen meets with Lamo in Sacramento for several hours. Alleges Lamo tells him for the first time the details of his chats with Manning, and he learns Manning’s name.
Poulsen says he leaves Lamo at 3pm with the chats on a thumbnail drive
At 4pm, Lamo says he met with FBI for the second time and FBI told him Manning was arrested the previous day in Iraq
Manning’s Charging Documents, however, say Manning’s alleged activities continued until “on or about 27 May 2010.

May 26

Poulsen asks Lamo for the chat logs
Lamo agrees to provide them if Poulsen will drive to Sacramento and pick them up, provided he embargoes them until Lamo grants permission
Former Army counterintelligence agent Timothy Webster says Lamo called him to ask a hypothetical question about Manning, and that this was the first contact Lamo had in reporting Manning. Lamo confirms this account to AP.
Manning is arrested in Iraq, per Lamo and Wired.
Lamo later tells CNET, “I and the FBI wanted to continue feeding him disinformation,” but the criminal investigation unit of the Army had other plans.

May 25

Lamo tells Wired he met with FBI for the first time, at a Starbucks near his house in Carmichael, California.
Chet Uber says Lamo called him during the meeting, and then took agents back to his house to show them the classified documents.
Lamo says he called Poulsen after the meeting and told him the details of what happened.

May 24

Poulsen claims Lamo tells him for the first time of his chats with Manning, after Lamo had already scheduled his first meeting with the FBI the next day

May 23 or 24

“Security pro” Chet Uber gets a phone call from Lamo, who says he has “received classified documents from a U.S. Army intelligence analyst named Bradley Manning and wanted advice about what to do.”
Uber puts him in touch with the former DOJ head of computer crimes, Mark Rasch. Uber suggests Lamo told him him about having received emails–but when Uber refers Lamo to Rasch, he describes ongoing AIM chats.

May 23

Lamo begins “cooperating with federal agents,” he tells AOL, after he “passed on what he knew to his ex, who happened to work for Army counterintelligence.”

May 21

First chats begin between Lamo and Manning, according to Wired.
Lamo tells Greenwald he lost the PGP key and never decripted emails from Manning, but sent him an invitation to chat over AIM anyway and the two began their alleged exchanges

May 20

Kevin Poulsen’s Wired Magazine article appears about Adrian Lamo’s involuntary psychiatric hold
Lamo tweets that people should donate to Wikileaks
Bradley Manning contacts Adrian Lamo on AIM “out of the blue,” Lamo tells Yahoo News. He tells Glenn Greenwald Manning first contacted him via encrypted email.

May 12

Adrian Lamo photographed at his parent’s house for use in upcoming Wired story by Kevin Poulsen

May 7

Adrian Lamo discharged from mental hospital

May

Manning demoted after an assault according to Army spokesman, who says Manning was not facing early discharge. This contradicts what Manning ostensibly said to Lamo in chat logs

April 28

Adrian Lamo’s backpack with his antidepressants is stolen. He calls the police, who have him involuntarily committed to a mental facility under state law allowing “the temporary forced hospitalization of those judged dangerous or unable to care for themselves.”

April 10

Wikileaks publishes Collateral Murder, video of helicopter killing Reuters journalists, which Manning purportedly discusses in chats with Lamo.

March 25

Assange tweets about being tailed in Iceland.

March 22

Wikileaks volunteer detained and questioned about Assange.

March 18

Two people carrying diplomatic passports follow Assange from Iceland to Norway.

March 15

Wikileaks publishes March 18, 2008 NGIC document analyzing the threat Wikileaks posed to the Army.

February 18

Wilikeaks publishes Rejkjavik cable dated January 13, 2010. According to Manning, after the leak, he tracked the Northern Europe Diplomatic Security Team tailing Assange in Sweden.

February:

Manning gave Wikileaks the video of the 2007 Army helicoper attack on Iraqi insurgents, according to Adrian Lamo in the Washington Post

2008:

U.S. Army Counterintelligence Center prepares a classified report placing WikiLeaks on “the list of the enemies threatening the security of the United States.” That Report discussed ways to destroy WikiLeaks’ reputation and efficacy, and emphasized creating the impression that leaking to it is unsafe.

October:

Manning enters the Army as a private
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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 01:40 PM
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6. +1 Interesting read.
That's a pretty decent, cited (at the link) timeline. Not perfect but thank you very much for posting it!

PB
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 01:50 PM
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7. Here's a k&r and another outlier to factor-what do Gareth Williams (the dead UK spy found in a trunk
when the Afghanistan War Logs were being released); Pvt. Bradley Manning and Julian Assange have in common based on open-sourced data?
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