"In Lamo's case, Kipper said he wasn't able to find, despite all the supplemental testing, "anything that definitively showed a cause of death." He couldn't even rule out murder, he said. "There are some things that can be done to a body that leave minimal or no findings at autopsy," he said.

He did allow, though, that there were some irregularities in the Lamo case, including something that he had never seen before: On Lamo's left thigh, under his clothes, Kipper found a sticker with a name and an address. Finding a sticker on a dead body was a first for him. The sticker read: Adrian Lamo, Assistant Director, ProjectVigilant, 70 Bates Street, NW, Washington, DC. "We took the sticker off; there was nothing under it," he said, adding, "no needle marks."

This seemed like a clue. Company records in Florida establish that Uber, the same man whom Lamo called during the Manning affair, incorporated ProjectVigilant in 2011. Uber was the person on the other end of those Skype calls Lamo's ex-wife had overheard all those years before. ProjectVigilant had nine corporate officers and directors. Uber was one of them; Lamo was another.

When we started calling the others, we got some peculiar answers, especially from a man named Duane Johnson, who was listed as the company's director of science and technology. Johnson is a professor at Iowa State University and, before we called him and asked about it, he had never heard of ProjectVigilant. After we sent him the incorporation papers, he speculated about how his title may have been created.

The papers were "using a title that was closely related to my title at the time — I was chief research officer of a laboratory," he said. Not just any lab; he was chief research officer at the Ames Laboratory, one of the Department of Energy's national labs. He also noticed that his contact address in the paperwork was the address for the campus student union. "I'm not sure how they chose me, but certainly it was misappropriated with some kind of intent," he said.

So from the outset, there was something a little "off" about ProjectVigilant. Other officers or directors we called said they had heard of ProjectVigilant, but they declined to speak on the record because they had signed nondisclosure agreements. Some of them were former government officials from the Justice Department and DHS. One, former NSA official Ira Winkler, agreed to talk.

Winkler is now the president of a company called Secure Mentum. He's a delightfully geeky guy who helps companies beef up their cybersecurity by probing their systems for vulnerabilities, something known as red teaming. It sounded a little like what Lamo used to do, but Winkler is doing it legally. Winkler said he met Uber at a hackers conference and after a quick conversation, Uber asked him to be part of this company.

He was made director of intelligence and Lamo was supposed to report to him. The animating idea for the company was to use volunteer hackers like Lamo to find bad people on the dark Web and then use ProjectVigilant as a vehicle to report them to the authorities.

"It was supposed to look for illegal, immoral actions on the Internet that pertained to foreign intelligence, terrorism, child exploitation," that sort of thing, Winkler explained.

But if Lamo ever discovered anything criminal during his trips to the dark Web, he never passed it along. Winkler never received anything from him. "What ProjectVigilant did was absolutely nothing, as far as I can tell," he said. If it had a mysterious connection to the government — aside from listing former government officials as officers or directors — we couldn't find it."

So speculate with me for a minute. What if all of that is true? Because we know it could be. Lamo is tied to under the radar government programs to spy. Come on, that goes way back, to at least WWI. This always stood out as odd. And a company member is former NSA? Because Lamo was randomly pulling names out of his ass? Well, that seems odd given how brilliant he was.

But the oddest part. Why the fuck is Assange hailed as a hero while Lamo got booed? Lamo was right to turn in Manning and everyone knew it. Lamo KNEW those transmissions are logged as data. He knew there was a record. A WRITTEN record.Then on the other side of it all he got burned and Manning and Assange are the heroes? That seems off.

Lamo is extremely well known in the hacker community and this story was big and messy and often commented on back then. What I want to point out is what was left out. Like, no one knows how he died. He supposedly was "body hacking". Ha. That always makes me laugh. They make up new terms to explain away shit that is horribly convenient. Most likely he was poisoned. Remember this is the man who hacked into the NYT. This was a man who knew lots of inconvenient things even though the news was like, eh he didn't find anything.

Meanwhile, after that was all going on Jeremy Hammond was caught. https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/jeremy-hammond-sentencing-protest/ Hammond got a very very different treatment. The one I thought Lamo was going to get. Why would that be?

There is no proof that Lamo was murdered though everyone following this at the time believed and still believes he was murdered. He was very smart and knew how to exploit weakness, probably because he was running from his own demons. It is said that Manning choose him based on his exploits. In the hacker world he was called Lamo the homo. Not politically correct for sure but it explained why Manning baited him. I always thought the whole thing was orchestrated. Lamo, Assange, Manning. Like it was all deliberate. From the start. No accidents or reaching in the dark. All assets. Lamo outing Manning set off a chain of events that filled the news cycle. Really? Isn't that stand out odd to anyone? Especially now. Especially now knowing that literally everything CNN reports is bullshit.

You are watching a movie.

Lamo was a very good actor. So is Assange. Manning is a broken man from a broken family who was put up to all of this with the promise he'd get to be a girl on the other side. People are that easily bought.

Lamo always always always reminded me of Barry Seal. They were both fools to do other people's dirty work. It got them murdered.

Exactly. Instead he was booed and demonized. Hackers hated him. They still hate him. If you bring Lamo up they launch into Lamo was a sell out working with the Feds long before Manning. Every. Single. Time. **Lamo was working with the Feds. ** Period. Ruminate on that a second. How did all of these hackers know he was a sell out long before Manning? Because it was a well established fact that Lamo was working with the feds. Manning was a fucking trainwreck who couldn't get out of the fetal position long enough to dress himself but was somehow calm, cool, collected enough to out collateral damage. Umm, okay. And then there is Assange. That blazing face of truth plastered EVERYWHERE. I think we've all learned that the NYT and Washington Post are 100 percent shills and what makes the front page is what they want you to see.

This article stands out as interesting to me. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/us/politics/assange-indictment.html

The article is pro Assange but more than that they don't take him to task for leaking classified docs to the press. Really? Why not? Oh, right because the NYT lives and dies for those leaks. Look at how favorably everyone treats Assange. And then pull up even a single article about OMG ORANGE MAN. There are literally right this minute headline articles that are hating on Trump right now on the MSN home page. But everyone is very worried about the first amendment and Assange but forgetting that Assange isn't protected under the first because he isn't an American. It's like living in a fairy tale. But the fact that Snowden has Assange's back AT EVERY TURN should be the biggest red flag. Free press my ass.

This is all so subtle. I realize that as I type. It is something I've been following for so long that I have a web of connections in my head. Ask me anything. Hopefully I'm making sense of this.