John Draper, Captain Crunch, interviewed Adrian Lamo at the Next HOPE Conference on July 18, 2010. Draper writes about Lamo’s presence at Next HOPE here. Transcribed by nedits.

On 6/7/2010, one day after Wired first reported Bradley Manning’s arrest and Adrian Lamo’s role transpired, Tom Allen and Carol Off interviewed Adrian Lamo for CBC Radio. In the interview, Lamo says that his first meeting was with two special agents from the Army, an NSA representative and an FBI agent. Thanks to SteveNS and nedits for transcribing.

Glenn Greenwald interviewed Adrian Lamo on 6/17/2010 for his article, The Strange and Consequential Case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and Wikileaks. Part I can be found here. In Part II, Lamo acknowledges that he handed classified information over to Wired Magazine.

You would have to have been f&#%ing r#*&rded to believe that in an era of unprecedented intolerance for press leaks of any kind, that the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division, the FBI, the NSA, the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations and the Cyber Defense Crime Center knowingly and willingly not only allowed convicted hacker Adrian Lamo to hold on to chat logs that contained sensitive classified information, but to distribute them unexpurgated to the press.

I only see two possibilities. One, Wired had the chat logs before Lamo made any calls to authorities, and was a party to whatever subsequently happened. Or two, the copies of the chat logs that have been given to the press have been done so at the instigation of the US government, and with their full approval.

Of course there’s always c) all of the above, which is what I’m guessing is the most likely scenario.

Glenn Greenwald interviewed Adrian Lamo on 6/17/2010 for his article, The Strange and Consequential Case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and Wikileaks. In the interview Lamo contradicts numerous things he says in other interviews — significantly, he says he contacted authorities “the day after” he began chatting with Manning (May 22). Many thanks to bmull for transcribing it.

Our latest challenge was the compilation of all media that contained source material to date. Since Lamo is by no stretch of the imagination publicity shy, and has given interviews to anyone willing to sit still, that proved to be a somewhat ambitious undertaking. We have now published a sortable table of articles relevant to the Manning-Wikileaks story, which we will continue to add material to. You can find that table here:

Key Wikileaks-Manning Articles

We here at FDL headquarters have spent a productive holiday season putting together data banks of information relevant to the Wikileaks-Bradley Manning- Adrian Lamo story. It feels like “Plame II, Electric Boogaloo,” because not since Scooter Libby has a story been so full of holes, contradictions and completely implausible events. And the journalism involved (if [...]

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