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[edit] May 21This initial, brief chat with Lamo occurred after Manning had already sent the ex-hacker an e-mail. Manning very quickly identified his job in the military and his access to classified documents.
(1:41:12 PM) Bradley Manning: hi
(1:44:04 PM) Manning: how are you?
(1:47:01 PM) Manning: im an army intelligence analyst, deployed to eastern baghdad, pending discharge for adjustment disorder [. . .]
(1:56:24 PM) Manning: im sure youre pretty busy
(1:58:31 PM) Manning: if you had unprecedented access to classified networks 14 hours a day 7 days a week for 8+ months, what would you do?
(1:58:31 PM) Adrian Lamo [AUTO-REPLY]: Tired of being tired
(2:17:29 PM) Manning: ?
(6:07:29 PM) Lamo: Whats your MOS?
(3:16:24 AM) Manning: re: Whats your MOS? Intelligence Analyst (35F)
[edit] May 22Manning told Lamo that he had provided Wikileaks with 260,000 classified State Department diplomatic cables. Lamo asked him for details on what scandals the cables might expose. Manning didnt provide a lot of detail, but he pointed to one cable (a test) that Wikileaks already published. He didnt elaborate on what he meant by test.
(12:15:11 PM) bradass87: hypothetical question: if you had free reign overclassified networks for long periods of time... say, 8-9 months... and yousaw incredible things, awful things... things that belonged in the publicdomain, and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington DC...what would you do?
(12:16:38 PM) bradass87: or Guantanamo, Bagram, Bucca, Taji, VBC for thatmatter...
(12:17:47 PM) bradass87: things that would have an impact on 6.7 billionpeople
(12:21:24 PM) bradass87: say... a database of half a million events duringthe iraq war... from 2004 to 2009... with reports, date time groups,lat-lon locations, casualty figures... ? or 260,000 state departmentcables from embassies and consulates all over the world, explaining howthe first world exploits the third, in detail, from an internalperspective?
(12:22:49 PM) bradass87: the air-gap has been penetrated... =L
(12:23:19 PM) Adrian: how so?
(12:26:09 PM) Adrian: yt?
(12:26:09 PM) bradass87: lets just say *someone* i know intimately well,has been penetrating US classified networks, mining data like the onesdescribed... and been transferring that data from the classified networksover the "air gap" onto a commercial network computer... sorting the data,compressing it, encrypting it, and uploading it to a crazy white hairedaussie who can't seem to stay in one country very long =L
(12:27:13 PM) bradass87: im here
(12:27:24 PM) Adrian: Depends. What are the particulars?
(12:28:19 PM) bradass87: theres substantial lag i think
(12:29:52 PM) Adrian: I don't understand.
(12:30:13 PM) bradass87: what was the last message you recieved?
(12:30:47 PM) Adrian: (12:28:19 PM) bradass87: theres substantial lag i think
(12:30:56 PM) bradass87: before that
(12:31:09 PM) Adrian: (12:26:09 PM) bradass87: lets just say *someone* i know intimately well,has been penetrating US classified networks, mining data like the onesdescribed... and been transferring that data from the classified networksover the "air gap" onto a commercial network computer... sorting the data,compressing it, encrypting it, and uploading it to a crazy white hairedaussie who can't seem to stay in one country very long =L
(12:27:13 PM) bradass87: im here
(12:27:24 PM) Adrian: Depends. What are the particulars?
(12:31:43 PM) bradass87: crazy white haired dude = Julian Assange
(12:33:05 PM) bradass87: in other words... ive made a huge mess

(12:35:17 PM) bradass87: im sorry... im just emotionally fractured
(12:39:12 PM) bradass87: im a total mess
(12:41:54 PM) bradass87: i think im in more potential heat than you ever were
(12:41:54 PM) Adrian : I have more messages than resourcesallocatable to action them. Please be very patient.
(12:45:59 PM) Adrian: not mandatorily
(12:46:08 PM) Adrian: there are always outs
(12:46:17 PM) Adrian: how long have you helped Wikileaks?
(12:49:09 PM) bradass87: since they released the 9/11 "pager messages"
(12:49:38 PM) bradass87: i immediately recognized that they were from anNSA database, and i felt comfortable enough to come forward
(12:50:20 PM) bradass87: so... right after thanksgiving timeframe of 2009
(12:52:33 PM) bradass87: Hilary Clinton, and several thousand diplomatsaround the world are going to have a heart attack when they wake up onemorning, and finds an entire repository of classified foreign policy isavailable, in searchable format to the public... =L
(12:53:41 PM) bradass87: s/Hilary/Hillary
(12:54:47 PM) Adrian: What sort of content?
(12:56:36 PM) Adrian: brb cigarette
(12:56:43 PM) Adrian: keep typing <3
(12:59:41 PM) bradass87: uhm... crazy, almost criminal politicalbackdealings... the non-PR-versions of world events and crises... uhm...all kinds of stuff like everything from the buildup to the Iraq War duringPowell, to what the actual content of "aid packages" is: for instance, PRthat the US is sending aid to pakistan includes funding forwater/food/clothing... that much is true, it includes that, but the other85% of it is for F-16 fighters and munitions to aid in the Afghanistaneffort, so the US can call in Pakistanis to do aerial bombing instead ofamericans potentially killing civilians and creating a PR crisis
(1:00:57 PM) bradass87: theres so much... it affects everybody on earth...everywhere there's a US post... there's a diplomatic scandal that will berevealed... Iceland, the Vatican, Spain, Brazil, Madascar, if its acountry, and its recognized by the US as a country, its got dirt on it
(1:01:27 PM) bradass87: i need one myself
(1:10:38 PM) bradass87: its open diplomacy... world-wide anarchy in CSVformat... its Climategate with a global scope, and breathtaking depth...its beautiful, and horrifying...
(1:10:38 PM) Adrian : I have more messages than resourcesallocatable to action them. Please be very patient.
(1:11:54 PM) bradass87: and... its important that it gets out... i feel,for some bizarre reason
(1:12:02 PM) bradass87: it might actually change something
(1:13:10 PM) bradass87: i just... dont wish to be a part of it... at leastnot now... im not ready... i wouldn't mind going to prison for the rest ofmy life, or being executed so much, if it wasn't for the possibility ofhaving pictures of me... plastered all over the world press... [...]
(1:14:11 PM) bradass87: i've totally lost my mind... i make no sense...the CPU is not made for this motherboard...
(1:30:32 PM) bradass87: >sigh<
(1:31:40 PM) bradass87: i just wanted enough time to figure myself out...to be myself... and be running around all the time, trying to meet someoneelse's expectations
(1:32:01 PM) bradass87: *and not be
(1:33:03 PM) bradass87: im just kind of drifting now...
(1:34:11 PM) bradass87: waiting to redeploy to the US, be discharged... [...]
(1:34:45 PM) bradass87: all while witnessing the world freak out as itsmost intimate secrets are revealed
(1:35:06 PM) bradass87: its such an awkward place to be in, emotionallyand psychologically
(1:35:06 PM) Adrian : I have more messages than resourcesallocatable to action them. Please be very patient.
(1:39:03 PM) Manning: i cant believe what im confessing to you

(1:40:20 PM) Manning: ive been so isolated so long i just wanted to be nice, and live a normal life but events kept forcing me to figure out ways to survive smart enough to know whats going on, but helpless to do anything no-one took any notice of me
(1:40:43 PM) Manning:

(1:43:51 PM) Lamo: back
(1:43:59 PM) Manning: im self medicating like crazy when im not toiling in the supply office (my new location, since im
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