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EDITORIAL: Leaking death - Wikileaks is putting American troops in danger
THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | July 26, 2010 | WASHINGTON TIMES
Posted on July 27, 2010 4:24:40 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
MugshotWikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks during a press conference in London on Monday, July 26, 2010, during which he said he believes there is evidence of war crimes in the thousands of pages of leaked U.S. military documents relating to the war in Afghanistan.
The Wikileaks release of 92,000 mostly secret documents on the Afghanistan War has produced no bombshell revelations, but it has revealed the dangers of the “open government” movement. The main impact of the document dump may be to teach the enemy how better to kill our fighting forces.
Reporters are naturally trying to find scandal in the massive document trove, but these are not the Pentagon Papers. Not all secret documents have news value or historical importance. Most of the 92,000 records - in fact, almost all of them - have no news value. Several thousand are unclassified or the classification is not noted, and the highest classification appears to be “secret,” which is about at the level of detail and significance of most news reports.
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Leaked War Files Expose Identities of Afghan Informants
UK Times via Fox News ^ | July 27, 2010 | Not Stated
Posted on July 27, 2010 8:34:39 PM PDT by SmartInsight
Hundreds of Afghan lives have been put at risk by the leaking of 90,000 intelligence documents to WikiLeaks because the files identify informants working with NATO forces.
In just two hours of searching the WikiLeaks archive, The Times of London found the names of dozens of Afghans credited with providing detailed intelligence to U.S. forces. Their villages are given for identification and also, in many cases, their fathers’ names.
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The main impact of the document dump may be to teach the enemy how better to kill our fighting forces.
That's long been the goal of the left. It's the main reason they defend this leak.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/29/a-wikileak-too-far/
“EDITORIAL: A Wikileak too far
There are limits to press freedom in times of war”
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times 6:03 p.m., Thursday, July 29, 2010
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SNIPPET: “Word is out that the Wikileaks classified-document dump contains reports naming Afghans who have been cooperating with Coalition forces. This is the kind of information that can get people killed. It also raises the data release to a new level of criminality.
The Washington Times Editorial Board reviewed the reports in question on the day of their release but chose not to write about them because of the potential damage that revealing the information could do to the war effort as well as to cooperative Afghans. These secret reports have the greatest possibility of causing deadly consequences, which under the American legal tradition is why those who leaked them should be held accountable.”