Topic: SECURITY - on December 18, 2011 at 11:57:00 AM CET
Army Arrested Manning Based on Unconfirmed Chat Logs
The military arrested alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning last year in Iraq based in large part on unconfirmed information that former hacker Adrian Lamo had gleaned from his chats with Manning, according to the government’s first witness in Manning’s hearing.
Special Agent Toni Graham, an investigator with the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division and the first witness called on Saturday, testified that she relied on information provided by Lamo, identified in court only as a confidential informant, that a video of an Army helicopter attack that Manning allegedly gave to WikiLeaks and that WikiLeaks published in April 2010 was a classified video.
Graham said she did not verify this was true before submitting an affidavit that was the basis for ordering Manning into confinement that lasted more than a year and a half before this week’s hearing.
wired.com Bradley Manning hearing: court told of Iraq unit's intelligence security chaos Army: Manning Kept a Copy of His Chatroom Confession Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Revealed
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