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The Mysterious Death of the Hacker Who Turned in Chelsea Manning

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I independently investigated Lamo's death. The most likely cause of death is related to kidney failure as per the autopsy posted of the medical examiner's website. Whether the cause of the kidney failure was related to his diet or to some external actor is unable to be determined due to the decomposition of the body when they found it. RIP

Do you have any medical training and direct access to evidence or did you investigate this in the same way that Reddit caught the Boston bomber?

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Lamo used to answer questions on Quora on a frequent basis[0]. By reading his answers I got glimpses of bits of how he thinks .

In one of his answers[1] he posts a disclaimer saying he used to work with federal agencies:

"The writer is a convicted felon, and has worked closely with federal agencies on national security investigations. Yes, I think it’s weird too."

Wish he'd stayed around longer.

RIP

[0] https://www.quora.com/profile/Adri%C3%A1n-Lamo

[1]https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-the-FBI-CIA-and-NSA-co...

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I independently investigated Lamo's death. The most likely cause of death is related to kidney failure as per the autopsy posted of the medical examiner's website. Whether the cause of the kidney failure was related to his diet or to some external actor is unable to be determined due to the decomposition of the body when they found it. RIP

> I independently investigated ...

Care to elaborate a bit?

Strictly speaking, I "independently investigated" JFK's death. Of course, my mother was still in diapers when he was killed.

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Al Jazeera Interview with Lamo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-U-omBeZMxc To me he looks very sedated or on something for sure

jesus christ.....how can anyone be surprised he is dead after watching this video? that's the closest thing to a deadman giving an interview you'd ever see.

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I'm not a physician and could be wrong, but is not necessarily a voluntary overdose/suicide IMO. Looks like an accumulative problem.

Valeriana root is a sedating but also has the effect to slow the ratio degradation of substances on liver. The liver is coping with more substances/drugs etc on a given time and the result is like a tetris effect. Drugs do not have enough time to exit the body. I assume that this could lead to overdose even with a schedule of taking supposedly safe doses. Drugs accumulating in liver could eventually lead to hepatic failure and overdose. Liver and Kidneys are related so if the liver is too busy could just send more unprocessed substances to kidneys to be discarded in urine. High doses of drugs arriving to kidneys could make them fail.

At the same time the victim would be sedated and probably not able to react, wake up and go to an hospital

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There are an awful lot of people turning up dead with connections to pending investigations and court cases lately...

i wouldn't necessarily disagree with that statement you make. though i think without concrete evidence, it's not possible to say anything like this for certain. there are indeed a lot of ways to make someone die, even just applying the 'right kind of psychological pressure to have someone do a lot of drugs' or such things.

these kinds of things can't be made concrete, and thus i'd say it's a waste of time and effort to pursue such thoughts, just as it's a waste of time and effort to pursue other views, like speculating about less tin foil hattish circumstances of his death.

the medical report is clear up to a point it can be. anything after that is just speculation unless direct concrete evidence can be provided.

that means, that this post isn't anymore far fetched than people speculating about less conspiracy based items. it's all a bunch of guesses, and there won't be a final answer unless someone pulls some proof out of their hat.

it's better to spend time on things which do have an answer instead of speculating on past events.

may the dude rest in peace and let that be the end of it.

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