The Feds are due at the door, so what will the high-tech Judas do? The currency of betrayal is supposed to be 30 pieces of silver, but for celebrity ex-hacker Adrian Lamo it was much simpler. "I was worried for my family,” he told the BBC. The betrayal - if it was such a thing - involved Lamo apparently telling the US authorities about IM conversations he had with a soldier who claimed to be behind the leaking to Wikileaks of a piece of video that vies with the unofficial Abu Ghraib photography course as a bad day for US self-image in its Iraq war. In shocking clarity (we can admire the video quality at least) the Wikileaks video shows a US helicopter pilot tracking and then gunning down a number of Iraqis including, it later transpired, two Reuters journalists, none of whom appeared to be doing much of anything and the majority of whom were not obviously armed.

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