Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Wikileaks News Updates -- July 28, 2010



WikiLeaks Iraq Cache More Than Three Times As Big

The cache of classified U.S. military reports on the Iraq War as yet unreleased by WikiLeaks may be more than three times as large as the set of roughly 76,000 similar reports on the war in Afghanistan made public by the whistle-blower Web site earlier this week, Declassified has learned.

Three sources familiar with the Iraq material in WikiLeaks hands, requesting anonymity to discuss what they described as highly sensitive information, say it’s similar to this week’s Afghanistan material, consisting largely of field reports from U.S. military personnel and classified no higher than the "secret" level. According to one of the sources, the Iraq material portrays U.S. forces being involved in a "bloodbath," but some of the most disturbing material relates to the abusive treatment of detainees not by Americans but by Iraqi security forces, the source says.

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More News On Wikileaks

The War Logs -- New York Times
The War Logs -- The Guardian
The Afghanistan Protocol -- Spiegel Online
Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010 -- WikiLeaks

Obama: Leaked Afghan War Documents Reveal Nothing New -- Voice of America
Obama: Issues in Leaked Documents Led to Review -- U.S. Department of Defense
Obama insists WikiLeaks didn’t reveal anything that wasn’t already known -- The Hill

WikiLeaks: We don't know source of leaked data -- AP
Pentagon begins full criminal probe of leaks -- Forbes/AP
Pentagon: "Very Robust" Probe of WikiLeak Source -- CBS
US att'y general: Probe seeking Afghan leak source -- AP
Attorney General Holder Says U.S. Probing Leaks of Afghanistan Documents -- Bloomberg
Army Officer charged in earlier leak had access to latest WikiLeak papers -- L.A. Times
Pentagon focuses on 'main suspect' in Afghanistan leak -- CNN
Army expands probe into soldier suspected of earlier leak -- CNN

On Wikileaks & the Pakistan memos -- Long War Journal
WikiLeaks fallout: US, UK, India criticize Pakistan as terror haven -- Christian Science Monitor
The New Republic: WikiLeaks And Pakistani Loyalties -- NPR

Security Controls At Their Worst? -- Next Gov
Afghan war documents point to overuse of government secrecy -- L.A. Times
WikiLeaks: Why classify mundane data? -- Christian Science Monitor
Hypnotic illusions at the Wikileaks Show -- The Register
WikiLeaks Organization Sparks Controversy -- Voice of America
Does my leak look big in this? -- Kings Of War
Wikileaks and the Afghanistan War Diary -- Captain's Journal
WikiLeaks, the MSM and national security -- Howard Kurtz, Washington Post

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