Posted on 08/03/2010 1:41:46 PM PDT by lbryce
Julian Assange’s team wants the Pentagon’s aid in reviewing a new batch of U.S. military secrets it plans to publish soon—and the Pentagon is reviewing WikiLeaks’ request. Philip Shenon reports.
Julian Assange wants the Pentagon’s help.
His secretive WikiLeaks website tells The Daily Beast it is making an urgent request to the Defense Department for help in reviewing 15,000 still-secret American military reports to remove the names of Afghan civilians and others who might be endangered when the website makes the reports public.
The request follows statements of regret from Assange and others at WikiLeaks that the site may have unintentionally endangered Afghan civilians with its first massive document dump—72,000 leaked classified American military reports from Afghanistan that revealed the names and home villages of hundreds of local informants who cooperated with American forces there.
Schmitt said the site wanted to open a line of communication with the Defense Department to review an additional 15,000 classified reports in an effort to “make redactions so they can be safely published.”
The Taliban has suggested it will now hunt down the informants named in the leaked documents.
“I would certainly say that the invitation to talk to the Obama administration is open,” said Daniel Schmitt, a WikiLeaks spokesman in Germany. “It has been open before.”
In a phone interview Tuesday with The Daily Beast, Schmitt said the site wanted to open a line of communication with the Defense Department to review an additional 15,000 classified reports that have still not been posted to the site in an effort to “make redactions so they can be safely published.” Schmitt said the reports also relate to American military operations in Afghanistan.
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‘Rendition’ him.
If I could work my will I know the kind of “help” I’d give those bastards.
Shadrack, Meshak and Pentago.
...As opposed to our prezz’dent who has no compunction to bow before so-called Kings.
Julian Assange catches some flak and now he suddenly grows a conscience? Gee, I’m impressed. It’s too bad he didn’t give a damn earlier about those Afghan civilians who are now endangered by his previous release of 72,000 classified reports.
Anyone who downloaded the stolen documents should be prosecuted just as you would prosecute someone for downloading a Hollywood movie or new CD.
Except the crime is espionage, not copyright violation.
Treason and espionage is punishable by death.
I am so disgusted. Typical liberals not even taking consequences into consideration and then whining about “oopsie”. They’re just trying to cover their butts cause they now know that they have innocent blood on their hands and they should be tried for war crimes.
I say if they really cared, they would hand the rest over to the DOD and back out of publishing them. That would be the socially responsible thing to do. In person, so they can be arrested. But only a real man would do that. No honor at that supposed company.
Assange and his website need to be stopped.
The left used to blame Bush for thousands of civilian deaths now one their own is to blame
I imagine we will hear the sound of crickets
Hey Julian, there’s a really easy way to ensure that no civilians or soldiers are hurt when you come into possession of ‘classified’ documents involving an ‘active’ war. YOU DON’T PUBLISH THEM, PERIOD!!!! There’s a reason why even presidential documents remain locked up for decades in their libraries before finally being ‘declassed’.
The media also cheered what Daniel Ellsberg did when he released The Pentagon Papers.
These WikiLeaks idiots are running literally scared...as they should be.....they deserve everything they get hit with, including a JDAM! =.=
That's the ticket. Get Wikileaks for a violation of the DMCA...that should be good for two to five years in Leavenworth.
I wonder who in the administration gave WikiLeaks the heads up. They need to be prosecuted too.
But these bastards don't give a **** about American lives.
The press was more concerned about honoring the embargo on details of the final Harry Potter book than they ever have been about matters of military intelligence.
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