ah fuck i cant believe youve done this backstory

the production team was actually working on the Baghdad strike though, which was never really encrypted (2:16:22 PM) Manning: he's got the whole 15-6 for that incident. of the Gharani airstrike in afghanistan, which he has, but hasn't decrypted yet. (2:15:57 PM) Manning: they also caught wind that he had a video. trying to figure out how he got the Reykjavik cable. and they matched up with the ones he's said publicly (2:14:28 PM) Lamo: did that bear out? the surveillance? (2:14:46 PM) Manning: based on the description he gave me, I assessed it was the Northern Europe Diplomatic Security Team. and he was telling me stories of other times he's been followed.

i was trying to figure out who was following him. but i dont know much more than what he tells me, which is very little (2:05:58 PM) Manning: it took me four months to confirm that the person i was communicating was in fact assange (2:10:01 PM) Lamo: how'd you do that? (2:12:45 PM) Manning: I gathered more info when i questioned him whenever he was being tailed in Sweden by State Department officials. and i've developed a relationship with assange. (2:04:29 PM) Manning: im a source, not quite a volunteer (2:05:38 PM) Manning: i mean, im a high profile source. He also talked about two videos he claimed he provided Wikileaks – one of an airstrike in Iraq in 2007, which he said he gave Wikileaks in February and which Wikileaks said it spent three months decrypting before publishing it this last April and another video taken during an air strike in Afghanistan in 2009, which Wikileaks has acknowledged it possesses but has not yet published. In this chat, Manning discussed his role as a source for Wikileaks and his interactions with its enigmatic founder, Julian Assange. (1:51:14 PM) Lamo: Anything unreleased? (1:51:25 PM) Manning: i'd have to ask assange (1:51:53 PM) Manning: i zerofilled the original (1:51:54 PM) Lamo: why do you answer to him? (1:52:29 PM) Manning: i dont. (1:49:40 PM) Manning: this one was a test: Classified cable from US Embassy Reykjavik on Icesave dated (1:50:30 PM) Manning: the result of that one was that the icelandic ambassador to the US was recalled, and fired (1:51:02 PM) Manning: thats just one cable. and yet the depth so rich (1:48:50 PM) Lamo: give me some bona fides. and possibly desensitized (1:48:20 PM) Manning: the scope is so broad. its impossible for any one human to read all quarter-million. the Holy See and its position on the Vatican sex scandals (1:46:26 PM) Lamo: play it by ear (1:46:29 PM) Manning: the broiling one in Germany (1:47:36 PM) Manning: im sorry, there's so many. i dont have the original material anymore (1:46:18 PM) Manning: uhmm. (1:45:00 PM) Lamo: what kind of scandal? (1:45:16 PM) Manning: hundreds of them (1:45:40 PM) Lamo: like what? I'm genuinely curious about details. 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 being discharged, im not offically intel anymore) (1:44:11 PM) Manning: you missed a lot. smart enough to know whats going on, but helpless to do anything. but events kept forcing me to figure out ways to survive. i just wanted to be nice, and live a normal life. (1:39:03 PM) Manning: i cant believe what im confessing to you :'( (1:40:20 PM) Manning: ive been so isolated so long. He didn't elaborate on what he meant by 'test.' Manning didn't provide a lot of detail, but he pointed to one cable (a 'test') that Wikileaks already published.

Lamo asked him for details on what scandals the cables might expose. Manning told Lamo that he had provided Wikileaks with 260,000 classified State Department diplomatic cables.

Ah fuck i cant believe youve done this backstory