2 July 2010

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:53:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RE: http://cryptome.org/0001/wikileaks-case.htm
From: R. Adrián Lamo <adrian[at]adrian.org>
To: cryptome[at]earthlink.net

Hello,

Your source for http://cryptome.org/0001/wikileaks-case.htm is goofy.

They don't want to go into their sources because they don't freakin' exist
- and if they do, they're taking him/her for a ride. I've never worked
with the federal government - or state, or local, except a brief stint as
a political appointee in SF and work for the Youth Commission.

I've certainly never worked for LEO's or the IC. I was, in fact, offered
the chance - before my arrest, and after - and declined. The "after" part
included a chance to inform. I didn't, even though it would have mitigated
my sentence.

The phone calls which they allude to simply never happened.

Someone is feeding you lies packaged in a delicious coating of
plausibility and/or truth. Their "Theory #2" is plausible enough. And I
don't care to defend my competence here - my successes speak for
themselves, as do my weaknesses.

A lot of people are looking for a conspiracy here that simply doesn't
exist. I informed for one primary reason: At the end of the day, Americans
would have died. I didn't know what was in those cables, and neither did
Bradley Manning. There's a difference between whistleblowing what you know
must be public, and dropping hundreds of thousands of documents without
any idea of who might get hurt.

Publish this if you want. It's the most honest accounting of the events
that you've received.

Kind Regards,
A

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