Posted on 08/12/2010 2:59:06 PM PDT by digger48
WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange said Thursday his organization is preparing to release the rest of the secret Afghan war documents it has on file. The Pentagon warned that would be more damaging to security and risk more lives than the organization's initial release of some 76,000 war documents.
That extraordinary disclosure, which laid bare classified military documents covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010, has angered U.S. officials, energized critics of the NATO-led campaign, and drawn the attention of the Taliban, which has promised to use the material to track down people it considers traitors.
The Pentagon says it believes it has identified the additional 15,000 classified documents, and said Thursday that their exposure would be even more damaging to the military than what has already been published.
Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell described the prospective publication as the "height of irresponsibility."
"It would compound a mistake that has already put far too many lives at risk," he said.
Speaking via videolink to London's Frontline Club, Assange brushed aside the Pentagon's demands that he stop publishing their intelligence. He gave no specific timeframe for the release of the 15,000 remaining files, but said his organization had gone through about half of them.
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If not complicit, they're just plain criminally incompetent.
Why is that website still up, and why is that assmonkey still consuming oxygen?
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read it through. He’s in Australia and our government hasn’t even approached the authorities there about it!
>> Why is that website still up, and why is that assmonkey still consuming oxygen?
If I ran the CIA, “that assmonkey” would have already taken a sniper’s bullet... and that sorry POS intelligence analyst that leaked them the data would be hanging from a tree, skinned alive, *begging* to be finished off.
Yawn...........
Oh, hey......... War is Hell.
Is this whole thing a misinformation campaign?
You know Pentagon has been looking at the files for weeks.
What is the “Rest of The Story” here?
Let’s see some secret files from other countries! I get so tired of just seeing US secrets.
It’s the Administration that is doing the leaking. Obama wants to have an excuse to leave A-stan before the job is done.
This is how espionage is done in the modern age. You just publish it in the newspaper, or post it on-line.
If you’re in counter intel, you can’t view it as any different from the old fashioned kind. Enemy spies during wartime get special attention and very real consequences.
He and the PFC are active Taliban agents. Period. Their spying has already cost the lives of some of our agents and will ultimately cost the lives of many more and their families as well. This is why we have places like Guantamo, and this is why they have gallows. And if he takes refuge in some other country, thats why we have special ops people, to deal with just this sort of thing.
This ain’t no disco; this ain’t no fooling around.
“Guantamo” “Guantanamo”.
Dang I wish I could spell.
Our government shouldn’t have to talk to the Aussies, their boys are in danger because of these leaks too.
Hey we got any Predators orbiting over Stockholm n` Melbourne at mail time?
August 6, 2010
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http://www.physorg.com/news200317486.html
The homepage of the WikiLeaks website
is seen on a computer after leaked classified
military documents were posted to in July, 2010.
A Swedish Internet company said Friday it had been
helping WikiLeaks since 2008 by hosting its servers
at a secret basement location in a
Stockholm suburb
The government needs to hunt down this man, wherever he is, and take care of him. Assange is killing Americans with his actions. He must be brought to justice and his network of cyber thugs must be taken down.
Has our’’DOJ’’ ever heard that releasing classified info is a felony?? Has anyone ever heard of ‘’misprison of a felony’’?? They have sent plenty of military folks to Levenworth for mishandling of classified info. Perhaps they need to interview some of these inmates.
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