[HIB]Wikileaks Critic Adrian Lamo Defends Manning Decision

He’s been called a snitch, a traitor, even a war criminal. He’s receiving death threats regularly. But Sunday Adrian Lamo took the stage at HOPE 2010 to defend his decisions, and then sat down with Gizmodo.Former hacker, columnist and security consultant Adrian Lamo is one of a cast of characters in the story of WikiLeaks, the controversial whistleblower site. WikiLeaks is most well known for Collateral Murder, a video based on a leaked Apache helicopter video which showed US forces killing various Iraqis, including two journalists.In May, 22-year-old US Army Private First Class Bradley Manning contacted Lamo over IM, apparently out of the blue. Manning was looking for someone to confide in. According to Lamo, Manning went on to tell him that he leaked the Apache video, and that he’d also leaked 260,000 diplomatic cables. Lamo decided to turn him in, and then told the story to Kevin Poulsen of Wired. Wired reported on Manning’s arrest and Lamo’s involvement.

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