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WikiLeaks Prompts U.S. Alert to Iraqis
WSJ ^ | * OCTOBER 21, 2010 | JULIAN E. BARNES

Posted on 10/22/2010 3:00:51 PM PDT by ColdOne

WASHINGTON—A Pentagon team has been reviewing copies of Iraq war documents the website WikiLeaks may release in coming days and plans to notify Iraqis named in the documents in an effort to minimize potential damage from the security breach, defense officials said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraq; wikileaks
This is so disturbing to me. How anyone can do this?
1 posted on 10/22/2010 3:00:52 PM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Anyone who doesn’t believe the people around Obama are behind this, with his tacit approval, just ask yourself ‘what would Bill Ayers do?’


2 posted on 10/22/2010 3:03:05 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: ColdOne
This is so disturbing to me. How anyone can do this?

Never underestimate an attention whore...


3 posted on 10/22/2010 3:03:31 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: ColdOne

I don’t understand why they don’t hack the site somehow. They don’t have to admit that they did it, just do it.


4 posted on 10/22/2010 5:18:06 PM PDT by tiki
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To: tiki

Because they already leaked the source file. All Wikileaks would have to do is give out the hash and likely hundreds of thousands of copies on hundreds of thousands of computers around the world would suddenly become published. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle.


5 posted on 10/22/2010 5:36:19 PM PDT by truthfree
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To: ColdOne

“This is so disturbing to me. How anyone can do this? “

I’ve been hearing/reading reports that Soros has been a heavy contributor to Wikileaks. I don’t know if this is true or not.


6 posted on 10/22/2010 5:50:32 PM PDT by dljordan ("His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him")
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To: ColdOne

The US spends an untold amount of money of “information security”. This level of leak suggests we need to stop spending the money.


7 posted on 10/22/2010 10:26:00 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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