Pentagon after source of Wikileaks
Posted on 27. Jul, 2010 by Leon Kennedy in World
After leaking over 90,000 documents relating to the U.S.’s activities in Afghanistan between 2004 and 2009 via the site ‘Wikileaks’, the still anonymous leaker now has the Pentagon after him. The pretext for the Pentagon’s being-after-ness is that the leaked documents, which refer to instances of ‘friendly fire’ as well as Afghan civilian casulties, is that the documents constitute a breach in “national security” and could even put U.S. soldiers currently in Afghanistan in danger.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said while the documents did not reveal any new information about the war in Afghanistan, they could be harmful to the military. “[It] has a potential to be very harmful to those that are in our military, those that are co-operating with our military and those that are working to keep us safe.”
Wikileaks themselves have made a commitment to ensure that their leakers do not face encarceration, or worse, from the fruits of their leakage, so it is not likely that the Pentagon will have any help from the site. Wikileaks has stated that its “primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations.”
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