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Video Captures Bradley Manning With Hacker Pals at Time of First Leaks
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Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 04:09:55 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/bradley-manning-in-boston/ By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com May 20, 2011 In January 2010 when Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning was allegedly contemplating leaking thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, he visited friends in Boston, who brought him to a party at Boston University’s BUILDS hacker space. Frontline, which is airing a documentary about Manning and WikiLeaks on May 24, has obtained a video showing Manning at the party. [Disclosure: Threat Level's Kevin Poulsen and Kim Zetter were interviewed for the documentary.] At the time of the party, Manning was on a two-week leave from his assignment in Iraq. It was at one point during this trip that he told friend Tyler Watkins that he’d gotten his hands on classified information that he was thinking about leaking, according to Watkins. “He wanted to do the right thing,” Watkins said in an interview with Threat Level last June. ”That was something I think he was struggling with.” The video shows Manning at the BUILDS party, small in stature compared to the hackers around him, leaning against a table while chatting with friend Danny Clark (in a red t-shirt at Manning’s left). [...]
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