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Was it ever found out why he did it? I don't know the guy but it just seems like idk, what is there to gain out of this?
by adamnemecek 9y ago
Was it ever found out why he did it? I don't know the guy but it just seems like idk, what is there to gain out of this?
- powerkiddie 9y agoCheck out Alex Gibney's We Steal Secrets. Lamo is featured quite a bit, in pretty intimate interviews.
- dec0dedab0de 9y agoHe had claimed CYA, because he assumed he was being watched. If I recall there were a few conspiracy theories at the time because He had recently been arrested, and then put on psychiatric medication as a result.
- daxorid 9y agoI'm guessing the same reason Sabu turned rat fink snitch.
- VectorLock 9y agoHe was alarmed that the indiscriminate leaking could provide dangerous to people's lives (which by some accounts, it was)
- danso 9y agoHere's an article about a public defense he gave back in 2010: https://gizmodo.com/5591905/wikileaks-critic-adrian-lamo-defends-manning-decision https://gizmodo.com/5591905/wikileaks-critic-adrian-lamo-def... > He told the audience that he, like Manning and WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, had acted out of conscience. Lamo believed the cables were dangerous. "Holy fracken crap, there's 260,000 documents," he said, "Do you think you could look through those and make sure they wouldn't cause anybody's life to be lost?"