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MIT students helped WikiLeaks suspect, hacker says
(CNN) - Adrian Lamo, the former computer hacker who tipped off federal authorities to WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning, says two men in the Boston area have told Lamo in phone conversations that they assisted Manning.
Lamo said both men attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but he refused to identify them because, he said, at least one of them has threatened him. One of these men allegedly told Lamo they gave encryption software to Manning and taught the Army private how to use it, Lamo said.
Manning, an Army intelligence analyst, is being held in solitary confinement at a Virginia detention facility. He is charged with leaking an airstrike video that the whistleblower website WikiLeaks published in April, and Pentagon officials say he is the prime suspect in last week's disclosure of thousands of field reports from the war in Afghanistan to the site.
Lamo claimed both men are working for WikiLeaks. Also, both men are Facebook friends with Lamo and Manning, and at least one continues to post Facebook messages on Lamo's wall, the former hacker said.
Asked for comment about Lamo's allegation that men working for WikiLeaks assisted Manning, WikiLeaks responded in an e-mail: "As a matter of policy, we do not discuss any matters to do with allegations relating to the identity of sources. Read More
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I want to see the COO of BP eat the seafood from Louisiana.... BP is full of lies....And the incident with MIT and wikilinks just shows you that education is a terrible thing to waste..
What was the url to check what the net has on you...didn't see a crawl with addy.
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I feel that, yes they should punish everyone involved in putting out secret information about the war. If anyone can get ahold of this information it can cause alot of problems with our miltary.
ask BP why we have such low quality ROV feed ???
at one time they were great ,now you can't make out a thing.
Look for a connection to the extreme right ..."Wiki-gate". Just another way to try to discredit the President.
I thought MIT students were smart! They admit to Lamo that they provided encryption software to Manning & then threaten him if he tells anyone. Prior to that, all they had to worry about was Manning spilling the beans.
They helped w/ disclosing classified info but want their identities to be secret! A little hypocritical if you ask me. It's only a matter of time before their identities become known. I understand why Wiki would want to protect their sources but isn't their mission to expose secrets?
As for these wikileaks people and all involved should have to spend a year in the surgery places of these poor soldiers coming back from war. The small segment I watched, I have no idea how these doctors can bear witness to this disasters of young vibrant men on the brink of death.
I think they should bear witness to the catastropy they helped to cause.
President Obama is sending more national guard troops to the border this month; Sarah Palin lacks marbles.