Hmm a tenuous bit of second hand information and it would be nice for the military to have someone outside their ranks to blame.<p>Is anyone else thinking Adrian Lamo is trolling for attention? Never hurts your career prospects to have your face plastered on the news repeatedly in this way.
Am I the only one who thinks Lamo is sort of a jerk in this whole ordeal. I feel he was covering his own butt out of fear, and did nothing patriotic in any way at all.
He felt threatened by 2 MIT students? Surely Lamo must have knew that bradass87 and his alleged "accomplices" were not mafia heavy hitters.<p>In all seriousness, this is piss poor reporting.<p>Like others have pointed out, this is second hand information that makes no substantive link between Manning and the 2 unnamed MIT students. Surely the reporter could have deduced from Lamo's clues who the two MIT students were and followed up for comments or quotes from them.<p>Even taking this story at face value there are lots of unanswered critical questions.<p>Was Manning taught to use the "encryption software" with the purpose of enabling him to hide stolen information?<p>What encryption software was sent?<p>The meaning of encryption software is left intentionally vague. Was the software something like truecrypt or perhaps the MIT masterminds just sent Manning a link to a firefox installer...<p>It's a shame that this passes for journalism.