alarmed, lamo contacts u.s. officials. convicted computer hacker says he took action because his own strong belief in government transparency is not without limits. >> where i draw the line is when it comes to the point that it can cause harm. >> reporter: we tried to get in contact with manning's attorney, but he never returned our calls. in the online chats, lamo, now a government informant, asked manning how he got the information out. manning explains that he copied classified files and video on to a cd that he had labelled lady gaga. no one suspected a thing. kind of sad. in their chats, manning mentions julian assange. i mean, i'm a high-profile source, and i've developed relationship with assange. but, assange continually denies knowing manning. >> we don't know if this guy is our source or not. >> reporter: manning's confessions to lamo have landed him at ft. leavenworth, kansas. facing a possible life sentence, manning is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of u.s. secrets. secrets he allegedly gave to julian

lamo, now a government informant.e said that he copies the information on a cd that he labeled lady gaga. no one suspected a thing. he mentioned yulean assange. i'm a high profile source and i developed a relationship with assange. but assange denies knowing manning. manning is in ft. levinton, kansas. he is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of u.s. secrets. secrets he allegedly gave to julian assange. soon, the press would pick it up. >> i ran around going this is the biggest story on the planet. we have to get ahold of this information. inspiration for itse was an archer drawing his bow. ♪ could that have also inspired its 556 horsepower supercharged engine? ♪ the all-new cadillac cts-v coupe. we don't just make luxury cars, we make cadillacs. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] thanks to advanced natural gas turbine technology from ge, the power that will help make our nation more energy independent is right here in america. [ crickets chirping ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] advanced gas turbine technology from ge. ♪ [ meli

alarmed, lamo contacts u.s. officials.ction because his belief in government transparency is not without limits. >> when i draw the line is when it comes to the point that it can cause harm. >> reporter: we tried to get in contact with mannings attorney but he never returned the calls. now a government informant. he said that he copies the information on a cd that he labeled lady gaga. no one suspected a thing. he mentioned yulean assange. i'm a high profile source and i developed a relationship with assange. but assange denies knowing manning. manning is in ft. levinton, kansas. he is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of u.s. secrets. secrets he allegedly gave to julian assange. soon, the press would pick it up. >> i ran around going this is the biggest story on the planet. we have to get ahold of this information. >>> i'm richelle carey. here is a look at the top stories. take a look at this. >> reporter: julian assange's collateral murderer video did not spark the outrage that he hoped for. and now his alleged so

documentary about wiki leaks then for adrian lamo because they really made it seem like the guy was really struggle between what you do and whether one was the right thing or the wrong thing. well adrian almost kind of a nobody in this situation i mean he is a felon is a government form and be someone that we really should be giving airtime to his opinions don't really not all of us and i would say that was a very interesting is that he tried to embroil the boston hacker scene into some kind of espionage charge minded by running one of limos casts spin narratives that someone in boston had actually helped bradley manning be documents and this is an obvious attempt in my mind to further put pressure on manning up to this in boston and to did attempt to intimidate people in boston or actually speaking about bradley manning and i can tell you my friends were very alarmed after hearing and unsourced claim on p.b.s. frontline we had somehow had something to do with the document leak it's a very alarming and i don't know why p.b.s. frontline would run these unsourced claims i'm very disappointed