In WikiLeaks Case, Bradley Manning Faces the Hacker Who Turned Him In

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/adrian-lamo-bradley-manning/

By Kim Zetter
Threat Level
Wired.com
December 20, 2011

Accused WikiLeaker Bradley Manning sat in the same room with the man who 
undid his life on Tuesday, when former hacker Adrian Lamo took the stand 
on the fifth day of Manning’s pretrial hearing.

Lamo, who turned Bradley Manning into the FBI and Army for allegedly 
leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to 
WikiLeaks, denied in his testimony that he’d violated a journalistic or 
ministerial promise of confidentiality when he turned over the chat logs 
that led to Manning’s arrest.

The 30-year-old ex-hacker said he’d decided just a day after first 
chatting over instant messenger with Manning, who used the handle 
“bradass87″ in their online chats, to report the Army intelligence 
analyst. Lamo said he did so because what was being confessed was so 
“egregious” that it required action.

Lamo, who’s been affiliated with the hacker ‘zine 2600, said that he 
considered himself a reporter, and that he was a minister with the 
Universal Life Church, which grants ministerial credentials over the 
internet. On cross-examination, Manning’s attorney David Coombs -- who 
refused to refer to bradass87 in the chats as Manning -- asked Lamo 
about the section of the logs where Lamo offered bradass87 
confidentiality as a journalist and a man of the cloth.

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