U.S. Soldier Arrested in WikiLeaks Inquiry After Tip From Former Hacker

[Cees Binkhorst]

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Niet slim om via internet op te scheppen over zo'n tape.
Die jongen gaat dus jaren de bak in, en zal geen grote carriere maken.

Groet / Cees

June 7, 2010, 9:33 am
U.S. Soldier Arrested in WikiLeaks Inquiry After Tip From Former Hacker
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/u-s-soldier-arrested-in-wikileaks-probe-after-tip-from-former-hacker/
By ROBERT MACKEY
YouTube [op website blog is de video nog een keer te zien] A still frame
from an edited version of a classified military video showing a 2007
attack by United States forces in Baghdad that was released in April by
WikiLeaks.org.

Wired’s Threat Level blog reported late Sunday that “an Army
intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video
and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to
whistleblower site WikiLeaks,” was arrested by the Pentagon.

The leaked video, which was filmed in Baghdad in 2007 during an
operation that killed civilians, including two Reuters journalists, was
published online by WikiLeaks in April.

Kevin Poulsen and Kim Zetter of Threat Level wrote:

Specialist Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Md., was stationed at
Forward Operating Base Hammer, 40 miles east of Baghdad, where he was
arrested nearly two weeks ago by the Army’s Criminal Investigation
Division. A family member says he’s being held in custody in Kuwait and
has not been formally charged.

Manning was turned in late last month by a former computer hacker with
whom he spoke online. In the course of their chats, Manning took credit
for leaking a headline-making video of a helicopter attack that
WikiLeaks posted online in April.

According to Wired, “Manning came to the attention of the F.B.I. and
Army investigators after he contacted former hacker Adrian Lamo late
last month over instant messenger and e-mail.”

Comments posted on the WikiLeaks Twitter feed on Monday warned
journalists not to trust Mr. Lamo or Mr. Paulson, but also said:

We are investigating the claims, if true, sources should be reminded to
ONLY SPEAK TO WIKILEAKS.

We never collect personal information on our sources, so we are are
unable as yet to confirm the Manning story.

Allegations in Wired that we have been sent 260,000 classified U.S.
embassy cables are, as far as we can tell, incorrect.

If Brad Manning, 22, is the “Collateral Murder” & Garani massacre
whistleblower then, without doubt, he’s a national hero.

NPR’s news blog, The Two-Way, posted this statement from the Pentagon
within the past hour:

United States Division-Center is currently conducting a joint
investigation of Specialist Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Md., who is
deployed with Second Brigade 10th Mountain Division, in Baghdad, Iraq.
He was placed in pretrial confinement for allegedly releasing classified
information and is currently confined in Kuwait. The Department of
Defense takes the management of classified information very seriously
because it affects our national security, the lives of our soldiers, and
our operations abroad. The results of the investigation will be released
upon completion of the investigation.

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