Editing Adrian Lamo (section)

===WikiLeaks and Chelsea Manning===
{{See also|Chelsea Manning}}
In February 2009, a partial list of the anonymous donors to the [[WikiLeaks]] website was leaked and published on the site. Some media sources indicated at the time that Lamo was among the donors on the list.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailytech.com/Wikileaks+Forced+to+Post+Its+Own+Secrets/article14328.htm|title=Wikileaks Forced to Post Its Own Secrets|website=DailyTech|access-date=December 20, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117071425/http://www.dailytech.com/Wikileaks+Forced+to+Post+Its+Own+Secrets/article14328.htm|archive-date=January 17, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=wikileaked>{{cite magazine|last=Singel|first=Ryan|url=https://www.wired.com/2009/02/wikileaks-force/|title=Wikileaks forced to leak its own secret info (Wired)|magazine=Wired|access-date=August 30, 2017}}</ref> Lamo commented on his [[Twitter]] page, "Thanks WikiLeaks, for leaking your donor list... That's dedication."<ref name=wikileaked />

In May 2010,<ref name=wiredIntAnarrest>{{cite magazine|last=Poulsen|first=Kevin|url=https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/leak/|title=U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe &#124; Threat Level|magazine=Wired|access-date=August 25, 2013}}</ref> Lamo informed U.S. Army authorities that Chelsea Manning had claimed to have leaked a large body of classified documents, including 260,000 classified United States diplomatic cables.<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/world/08leaks.html|work=The New York Times|first=Elisabeth|last=Bumiller|title=Army Leak Suspect Is Turned In, by Ex-Hacker|date=June 7, 2010}}</ref> He said that Manning also "took credit for leaking" the video footage of the [[July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike]], which has since come to be known as the "[[July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike#Leaked video footage|Collateral Murder]]" video.<ref name="nytimes.com" /><ref>
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| title=Wikileaks site unfazed by arrest of US army 'source'
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Lamo said he would not have turned Manning in "if lives weren't in danger". He characterized her as "in a war zone and basically trying to vacuum up as much classified information as [she] could and just throwing it up into the air."<ref name=wiredIntAnarrest /> WikiLeaks responded by denouncing Lamo and the [[Kevin Poulsen|author]] of the article as "notorious felons, informers & manipulators", and said: "journalists should take care."<ref name="nytimes.com" />

Lamo was a volunteer "adversary characterization" analyst for Project Vigilant, a Florida-based government contractor, which encouraged him to inform the government about the alleged WikiLeaks source. The head of Project Vigilant, Chet Uber, claimed, "I'm the one who called the U.S. government... All the people who say that Adrian is a narc, he did a patriotic thing. He sees all kinds of hacks, and he was seriously worried about people dying."<ref name="forbes">{{cite web |title=Andy Greenberg: Stealthy Government Contractor Monitors U.S. Internet Providers, Worked With Wikileaks Informant, August 1, 2010 |url=https://blogs.forbes.com/firewall/2010/08/01/stealthy-government-contractor-monitors-u-s-internet-providers-says-it-employed-wikileaks-informant/ |access-date=August 25, 2013 |website=Forbes}}</ref>

The [[Taliban insurgency]] later announced its intention to execute Afghan nationals named in the leaks as having cooperated with the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan. By that time, the U.S. had received months of advance warning that their names were among the leaks.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.newsweek.com/taliban-says-it-will-target-names-exposed-wikileaks-74257|title=Taliban Says It Will Target Names Exposed by WikiLeaks|date=July 30, 2010|newspaper=Newsweek|access-date=January 30, 2017}}</ref> Manning was arrested and incarcerated in the U.S. military justice system and later sentenced to 35 years in confinement. President [[Barack Obama]] commuted the sentence to seven years,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commutes-bulk-of-chelsea-mannings-sentence.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commutes-bulk-of-chelsea-mannings-sentence.html |archive-date=2022-01-01 |url-access=limited|title=Chelsea Manning to Be Released Early as Obama Commutes Sentence|last=Savage|first=Charlie|date=January 17, 2017|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=January 30, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> including time served.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Poulsen|first1=Kevin|author-link=Kevin Poulsen|last2=Zetter|first2=Kim|author-link2=Kim Zetter|title=U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe|magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]|date=June 6, 2010|url=https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/leak/|access-date=June 7, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=US intelligence analyst arrested over security leaks|publisher=BBC|date=June 7, 2010|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10254072.stm|access-date=June 7, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100607184336/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10254072.stm|archive-date=June 7, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> Lamo responded to the commutation with a post on [[Medium (website)|Medium]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://medium.com/@lamo/a-statement-on-the-commutation-of-wikileaker-chelsea-mannings-sentence-from-the-man-who-busted-4faaff042960|title=A Statement On the Commutation of WikiLeaker Chelsea Manning's Sentence, From The Man Who Busted...|first=Adrián|last=Lamo|date=January 17, 2017}}</ref> and an interview with ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-01-18/hacker-who-turned-in-chelsea-manning-it-was-not-my-most-honorable-moment|title=Hacker Who Turned in Chelsea Manning: 'It Was Not My Most Honorable Moment'|last=Nelson|first=Steven|date=January 18, 2017|work=[[U.S. News & World Report]]}}</ref>{{Vague|date={{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}

Lamo characterized his decision to work with the government as morally ambiguous but objectively necessary, writing that "there were no right choices that day, only less wrong ones. It was cold, it was needful, and it was no one's to make except mine."<ref>{{cite news |last=Lamo |first=Adrian |date=January 3, 2013 |title=Bradley Manning and me: why I cannot regret turning in the WikiLeaks suspect |work=The Guardian |url=http://www.securityfocus.com/news/595 |access-date=March 20, 2013}}
</ref> Lamo was criticized by fellow hackers, such as those at the [[Hackers on Planet Earth]] conference in 2010, who labeled him a "[[Informant|snitch]]."<ref>Bhattacharya, Sanjiv (July 22, 2010). [https://web.archive.org/web/20100722020415/http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/wikileaks-snitch-hacker-adrian-lamo-faces-wrath-of-his-peers/19562042 "WikiLeaks 'Snitch' Hacker Faces Wrath of His Peers"]. ''[[AOL News]]''. Archived from [http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/wikileaks-snitch-hacker-adrian-lamo-faces-wrath-of-his-peers/19562042 the original] on July 22, 2010. "According to [[Eric Corley|Emmanuel Goldstein]], who organized the panel discussion, 90 percent of the conference was anti-Lamo."</ref> Another told Lamo, following his speech during a panel discussion: "from my perspective, I see what you have done as treason."<ref>{{cite web |date=July 27, 2010 |title="WikiLeaks Is Not One Person...We Are All the Threat" – Hacker Magazine Editor Says WikiLeaks Is Bigger Than Julian Assange |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/27/wikileaks_is_not_one_personwe_are |access-date=August 25, 2013 |publisher=Democracynow.org}}</ref>