Email to Kevin Poulsen

Email to Kevin Poulsen, 12/25/2010:

From: ggreenwald@salon.com
To: "Kevin Poulsen" (Kevin_Poulsen@wired.com)
Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2010 12:49:48 PM (GMT-0300) Auto-Detected
Subject: From Glenn Greenwald

Hi Kevin - Sorry to bother you on Christmas, but I'm writing for tomorrow about Charlie Savage's NYT article on WikiLeaks and Manning, in which Adrian Lamo claims that (a) Manning "did an actual physical drop-off [of classified documents] when he was back in the United States in January of this year" and that (b) Manning "had been directly communicating with Mr. Assange using an encrypted Internet conferencing service as the soldier was downloading government files."

I realize that you believe the chat excerpts Wired published makes reference to (b), but I have two questions:

(1) Is there anything in the Manning-Lamo chats in which Manning told Lamo what is referenced in (a) -- i.e., that Manning "did an actual physical drop-off [of classified documents] when he was back in the United States in January of this year"? If so, do you intend to publish those excerpts?

(2) Is there anything in the chats beyond what you've published relating to (b) -- i.e., that Manning "had been directly communicating with Mr. Assange using an encrypted Internet conferencing service as the soldier was downloading government files"? If so, do you intend to publish those excerpts? Thanks -

Glenn Greenwald
SALON