Posted on 10/22/2010 7:58:29 PM PDT by SubGeniusX
Wikileaks, as promised, just spilled the Pentagon’s digital guts again.
In the biggest document dump in Wikileaks’ short history and possibly the biggest breach of classified data ever, the whistle-blower organization has posted 391,832 classified Iraq War documents on its website.
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Practically every major news organization in the world has been given 10 weeks of access to the documents prior to their release, and you can find some of their analyses via these links: CNN, the BBC, Al Jazeera (which broke Wikileaks’ carefully negotiated embargo on the news), The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and Le Monde.
But as in the case of Wikileaks’ massive Afghanistan document release, the site isn’t depending on the media to publicize the documents. Instead, a site it’s calling “Diary Dig“ gives users access to a searchable database of every incident in the last six years of the war by period or region. Another site, called the “War Logs” and hosted in France, allows users to browse the documents, rate them for relevancy or interest, and post comments on them.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.forbes.com ...
At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports ('The Iraq War Logs'), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army. Each is a 'SIGACT' or Significant Action in the war. They detail events as seen and heard by the US military troops on the ground in Iraq and are the first real glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to throughout.
The reports detail 109,032 deaths in Iraq, comprised of 66,081 'civilians'; 23,984 'enemy' (those labeled as insurgents); 15,196 'host nation' (Iraqi government forces) and 3,771 'friendly' (coalition forces). The majority of the deaths (66,000, over 60%) of these are civilian deaths.That is 31 civilians dying every day during the six year period. For comparison, the 'Afghan War Diaries', previously released by WikiLeaks, covering the same period, detail the deaths of some 20,000 people. Iraq during the same period, was five times as lethal with equivallent population size.
...friggin' unstable, leftist, traitorous homo.
What ever happened to that little ghey worm who gave Wikileaks al those documents?
What ever happened to the “need to know” standard for classified information, where you could only get access to information that was required for your assignment? There is no way some PFC should have had access to nearly 400,000 classified documents. His head should certainly roll, but so should the heads of alot of his superiors.
I think Soros/Obama is behind this - hoping for an October surprise.
It would bring a smile to my face and warmth to my heart if the guys who leaked these as well the homo founder were turned into wind chimes at the end of some piano wire.
That puzzled me also: how could it be that a PFC had access to so much classified data?
And even if he did have that access - which makes no sense at all - an immediate alarm should have sounded the instant he tried to access more than a little piece of it.
The DoD needs to explain this to the public.
They are hoping SO badly to find some ‘smoking gun’ in the documents that will help the libs in their accusations of war crimes, against George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld.
Just what exactly does it take anymore to be considered an enemy agent by our friggin’ castrated government?
Thanks 0bama! Great job protecting military secrets!
Thanks 0bama! Great job protecting military secrets!
As well as anyone else affiliated with this treason, wherever they are.
The PFC is going to claim to have been bullied within the military...then on the wave of recent bullying on gays (which I abhor the bullying)...Obama will issue a Presidential Pardon to the PFC.
Does anyone else have a problem believing that there was a nearly 3 to 1 ratio of civilian casualties over combatants in this time of future smart weapons and backwards rules of engagement? Does this report specify how many of the 66,081 civilians were killed by suicide bombers or are we just going to assume that U.S. forces did it all?
"Need to know" has long ago devolved into a "need to protect my funding". The main reason the big agencies don't share information is that they fear each other more than the terrorists.
As far as the level of access this PFC had, it is totally normal. The databases don't give you more or less access based off of your rank. Once you're in, you're in, be you new recruit or 30 year agency veteran.
These days, any brand new analyst with a pulse and a clearance will get set up with database accesses where 400,000 documents is a rounding error, and the sensitivity is sky high.
The only notable thing about this leak is that the kid was so junior, he didn't know what to steal. What he did was the equivalent of sneaking $20s out of the cash register at a jewelry store.
I’m sorry... but as I remember the compromise of classified information gets people shot.
The proprietors of wikileaks should be summarily arrested and araigned for Treason.
arraigned. Yes, that’s the word I was looking for.
DoD needs to get their shit together in terms of modern era data security. I realize it is not easy, but this is ridiculous. Why declare anything “secret” when this much of it can be easily copied and disseminated?
People are, and will always be, the weakest link.
Too bad they couldn’t obtain and leak something REALLY secret, Obama’s school records.
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