Friday, August 13, 2010

Wikileaks Preparing To Unload More Secret Documents On The Afghan War



Pentagon Slams WikiLeaks' Plan To Post More War Logs -- Wall Street Journal

U.S. defense officials on Thursday responded angrily to WikiLeaks' plan to post additional Afghan war logs, with Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggesting that the move could further endanger the lives of Afghans who helped the U.S. war effort.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, speaking to a group in London by video link on Thursday, said his group had gone through 7,000 of the 15,000 documents the group has so far withheld from publishing. WikiLeaks had said it was withholding posting those documents until it had time to review them to block out the names of sources contained in the documents.

"Absolutely," he replied when asked whether he still plans to publish the remaining documents.

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More News On Wikileaks

WikiLeaks to continue releasing Afghan war files: Assange -- Yahoo News/AFP
WikiLeaks preparing to release more Afghan files -- Yahoo News/AP
Pentagon Cautions WikiLeaks Over New Document Dump -- New York Times/Reuters
Reporters Without Borders says Wikileaks 'irresponsible' -- Herald Sun
Media watchdog slams Wikileaks' 'irresponsibility' -- AFP
WikiLeaks Comes Under Fire from Rights Groups -- Time Magazine
CIA: Wikileaks sharing 'inevitable' -- BBC
US denies asking other nations to attack Wikileaks -- ZDNet
Time for Obama to shut down WikiLeaks' Assange -- Marc Thiessen, Washington Post
How WikiLeaks Can Be Used For Good -- Charli Carpenter, NPR/Foreign Policy

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