WikiLeaks Iraq Cache More Than Three Times As Big

[sabra]

Source: Newsweek

The cache of classified U.S. military reports on the Iraq War as yet unreleased by WikiLeaks may be more than three times as large as the set of roughly 76,000 similar reports on the war in Afghanistan made public by the whistle-blower Web site earlier this week, Declassified has learned.

Three sources familiar with the Iraq material in WikiLeaks hands, requesting anonymity to discuss what they described as highly sensitive information, say it’s similar to this week’s Afghanistan material, consisting largely of field reports from U.S. military personnel and classified no higher than the "secret" level. According to one of the sources, the Iraq material portrays U.S. forces being involved in a "bloodbath," but some of the most disturbing material relates to the abusive treatment of detainees not by Americans but by Iraqi security forces, the source says.

Although WikiLeaks founder and principal operative, Julian Assange, provided three news organizations—The New York Times, London newspaper The Guardian, and the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel—with weeks of advance access to the Afghan War material before making it public himself, he’s apparently being more coy in his handling of the Iraq War material, the source indicates. Assange is keeping tighter personal control over the Iraq material than he maintained over the Afghan material, the source says, adding that it’s not clear whether any media organizations have had advance access to it or when it might be made public.

A second source says there are indications that WikiLeaks has been receiving leaked material from sources besides Bradley Manning, a U.S. Army private who recently was charged by military authorities with illegally handling classified information. Among other offenses, Manning has been charged with improperly downloading more than 150,000 U.S. diplomatic cables.

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/2010/07/27/wikileaks-iraq-cache-three-times-bigger.html

[mike_c]

1. "sunlight is the BEST disinfectant...."

Thank you, WikiLeaks! :yourock:

[xultar]

2. ruh ro!

[Iggo]

3. Well, now they HAVE to kill him.

Right?

[Poll_Blind]

5. LOL, that was my first thought. Will it be suicde by two shots to the head? Death by light plane?

Suicide by garden implement?

I'm thinking Death By Bad Batch Of Lutefisk ™

PB

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Oh shit." - xCommander AWOL (R)

"You mean to tell me that all the TORTURE that me and my republicon cronies ordered is not the very soul of American honor and Christian love? Jeeez (smirk). I am shocked shocked shocked, I tell you. Shocked. SMIRK."

- xCommander AWOL (R)

[The Stranger]

6. Yes, but the Iraq War Crime falls solely at the feet of the Bush Criminal Junta.

Obama adopted Afghanistan.

That is why the media wants to run with Afghanistan but, once again, protect the Bush Nazis.

[Kelvin Mace]

7. UNfortunately

these people are going to wind up in jail.

The military industrial complex does not tolerate ANY threat to its profits.

Sadly, the Obama Administration is a willing tool in this.

[superconnected]

8. I think they're more likely to end up dead.

I agree that the game is going to be short because of the military industrial complex.

Bet you anything America is going to make it look like some other government did it.

[harun]

9. I hoping Obama uses this to his advantage, to swing public opinion against these

wars vastly to the negative. I am not counting him out in this respect.

[lakers4life24]

10. If Only Wikileaks Could Post All the Dirt and Scandals On all The Republiscum

*Sigh*

[L0oniX]

11. Evil hates the light and thieves prefer to work in the dark of night.

[Jefferson23]

12. We're ready when you are Assange. n/t

[Mnemosyne]

13. KnR for more Truth! n/t

[pleah]

14. K&R LEAK ALL THE FUCKING DOCUMENTS ALREADY!

:evilgrin:

[Xicano]

15. I wonder if these leaks could be an Hegelian dialectic?

I mean c'mon ninety thousand classified secret documents? That doesn't sound fishy at all? I would be more inclined to believe the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

I am just saying....


:shrug: