WikiLeaks Collaborating With Media Outlets on Release of Iraq Documents Cited As Biggest Leak Ever

Newsweek ^ | September 10, 2010 | Joe Raedle

[lbryce]

A London-based journalism nonprofit is working with the WikiLeaks Web site and TV and print media in several countries on programs and stories based on what is described as massive cache of classified U.S. military field reports related to the Iraq War. Iain Overton, editor of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, tells Declassified that his organization has teamed up with media organizations—including major television networks and one or more American media outlets—in an unspecified number of countries to produce a set of documentaries and stories based on the cache of Iraq War documents in the possession of WikiLeaks. As happened with a similar WikiLeaks collection of tens of thousands of U.S. military field reports on the Afghan war, the unidentified media organizations involved with the London group in the Iraq documents project will all be releasing their stories on the same day, which Overton says would be several weeks from now. He declined to identify any of the media organizations participating in the project.

Overton acknowledges that the volume of Iraq War reports that WikiLeaks has made available for the project is massive, and almost certainly more than the 92,000 Afghan field reports the organization made available for advance review to The New York Times, Britain's Guardian, and Germany's Der Spiegel. The material is the "biggest leak of military intelligence" that has ever occurred, Overton says.

[Hardraade]

I guess assassinating these creeps is something our government would consider to be out of the question.

Too late. It's already ditributed around several organizations :(.

[combat_boots]

I specifically heard a woman call CSPAN during the Iraq war, who reported that she SAW a CNN reporter acquire Iraqi documents that confirmed WMD in Iraq. They were in Arabic. She was there. It was from the hotel where the reporters stayed.

And ‘that’ was the last I heard of those documents.

[Rocketwolf68]

I love how our Dept of homeland security troll wants to go after ex military and christian militia types for thought crimes, but real crimes they cover their eyes and sing cumbaya.

[BlackVeil]

Thanks for posting this, and here is a brief update:

In order to prepare for Monday's anticipated release of sensitive intelligence on the US-led Iraq war, officials set up a 120-person taskforce several weeks ago to comb through the database and "determine what the possible impacts might be", said Colonel David Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman.