I got an exclusive first interview with Adrian Lamo, the hacker to whom Bradley Manning confessed. U.S. Army Private Manning stole government documents that revealed secret information about U.S. war strategy and reached out to Lamo, a rockstar in the hacker world, to ask Lamo what he should do with the information. Lamo went to the FBI. "I went to the right authorities, because it seemed incomprehensible that someone could leak that massive amount of data and not have it endanger human life," Lamo said. "If I had acted for my own comfort and convenience and sat on my hands with that information, and I had endangered national security ... I would have been the worst kind of coward."
Read MoreThis investigation began with a tip from a South Florida source that a Broward County school teacher who had been convicted of sexually molesting a seventh-grade student had convinced a judge to let him avoid going to prison. The sex offender then moved not far from his victim’s home. I uncovered that the judge erred in granting this arrangement – there had been no legal precedent for it -- and the Broward Sheriff’s Office, charged with monitoring the sex offender’s whereabouts, appeared to have no record of where he was at times.
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On the occasion of her 100th birthday, Hitler’s filmmaker denies her role in the Holocaust
Facing the highest rates of unemployment in three years, German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder recruited longtime friend Peter Hartz, Volkswagen’s personnel manager, to chair a committee that would look for solutions. That was in February. Ten days ago, the two men appeared before an invitation-only crowd of 700 at the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, bearing the result of that labor.
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My Florida road trip with Lois Frankel as she ran for governor.
Read MoreElian Gonzales’ lawyer makes a run at becoming the mayor of Miami.
Read MoreThe Bolshoi, with extra cheese
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