The Pentagon's Secret War Against Wikileaks

The General Gunning for WikiLeaks -- Philip Shenon, The Daily Beast

As WikiLeaks prepares a new dump of secret war documents, the feds’ intel SWAT team races to do damage control. Philip Shenon reports on its leader and its inner workings.

In a nondescript suite of government offices not far from the Pentagon, nearly 120 intelligence analysts, FBI agents, and others are at work—24 hours a day, seven days a week—on the frontlines of the government’s secret war against WikiLeaks.

Dubbed the WikiLeaks War Room by some of its occupants, the round-the-clock operation is on high alert this month as WikiLeaks and its elusive leader, Julian Assange, threaten to release a second batch of thousands of classified American war logs from Afghanstan. Thousands more leaked documents from another American war zone—Iraq—are also reportedly slated for release by WikiLeaks this fall.

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My Comment: I was first surprised on the number of individuals involved in investigating Wikileaks ....

.... nearly 120 intelligence analysts, FBI agents, and others are at work—24 hours a day, seven days a week—on the frontlines of the government’s secret war against WikiLeaks.

But then it became clear on why there are so many involved ....

.... to determine exactly what classified information might have been leaked to WikiLeaks, and then to predict whether its disclosure could endanger American troops in the battlefield, as well as what larger risk it might pose to American foreign policy.

and ....

.... to gather evidence about the workings of WikiLeaks that might someday be used by the Justice Department to prosecute Assange and others on espionage charges.

I can now easily paint what will happen. Wikileaks will continue leaking files, and those who would be impacted by such leaks be provided protection and/or relocation to a safer place.

And as for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange .... there will be a day when he will be facing a US court room on espionage charges .... and he will be convicted of such charges from the evidence that this US government's "WikiLeaks War Room" accumulates in the next few months.