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Wikileaks man defends release of classified military files
Salt Lake City News.Net
Thursday 29th July, 2010
The Australian-born founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has defended the placement of tens of thousands of classified US military files on his website.
Even amid US intelligence fears that the move will put Afghan informants at risk, Assange has claimed the files were already in the public domain.
He has accused the White House of failing to respond to requests for assistance prior to the release of the files, which he had asked for to minimise the risk of informants being identified.
Wikileaks at first claimed the documents were vetted to ensure names of informants were not released, but reports since have suggested details of Afghans said to have provided intelligence to the US are able to be uncovered.
While the Pentagon had warned that the disclosure put the lives of informants at risk, Mr Assange has claimed no one was harmed by the disclosures.
He told the Times that it would be a matter of deep regret to him if anyone should come to harm over the leaked files.
Assange told the Times: "Our goal is justice to innocents, not to harm to them. That said, if we were forced into a position of publishing all of the archives or none of the archives we would publish all of the archives because it's extremely important to the history of the war."
He said 15,000 documents that might identify informants had already been held back from publication.
The Times reported Wednesday that it had been able to uncover the names of dozens of Afghans said to have provided intelligence to US forces.
The more than 90,000 classified military files span a period from 2004 to 2009 and contain a string of damaging claims, including allegations that government spies in Pakistan had met directly with the Taliban.  Email this story to a friend
Comments on this story
COMMUNIST!!!!
07-29-10, 07:47 AM |
Wikileaks proprietor defends his position on documents
HE IS THUS WORKING INDIRECTLY FOR USA TIMESHALLTELL
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Anonymous
07-29-10, 09:42 AM |
A bit off topic but did you know the internet will be offline world wide for a couple of days next month.
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Unregisteredq
07-29-10, 07:49 PM |
Kudos to the MAN!
Without leaked documents we would never get the truth, Politicians are mostly ex-lawyers whose proffession is to lie and spin facts. Democracy is dictatorship by manipulation of the masses through information and laws-Jews had the same thing done to them by the Germans. Laws and rules that eventually lead to concentration camps once they were bled dry of all wealth. This is more of the same on a slower larger scale-heck even Israel is following the Nazi’s road map!
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secret slave
07-29-10, 05:52 PM |
USA does not own Aghanistan nor Iraq nor Palestine
salaam,
Border skippers
What be hunting quota licensee spares the beastly groupees,
hunts not killer grizzly groupees as known professional killers until every grizzly dead!
Why spare ANY GRIZZLY BEAR GROUPEE HUNTERS?
RATHER kill its own kind of folkes professional groupee hunters !
SPARES GRIZZLY groupeees!
feeamanellaah
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secret slave
07-29-10, 06:00 PM |
Homocidian does not question its killings
salaam = peace,
Homocidians hunting the ice age wall,
supports the imposter stone wall !
feeamanellaah
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secret slave
07-29-10, 06:05 PM |
Homocidian =homocide = murder
salaam,
Why skip past some murders of handy work,
knowingly,
Then says it stopping murders dealings?
While committing many murders !
Blind by its own designmentations!
feeamanellaah
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secret slave
07-29-10, 06:07 PM |
WAR MONGERS adores war agenda
salaam,
WAR monger dislikes PEACE MONGERS !
feeamanellaah
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Anonymous
07-29-10, 07:44 PM |
Hang this SOB.
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Anonymous
07-30-10, 12:50 AM |
The internet can make the world progressive or destroy it. People who crazy will spread evils using the system.
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