WikiLeaks preparing to release 15,000 more Afghanistan documents
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(CNN) -- The founder of WikiLeaks said Thursday the whistle-blower website is preparing to release another roughly 15,000 documents about the war in Afghanistan.
"We are about halfway through them," Julian Assange told reporters in London, England. "This is a very expensive process."
The Pentagon on Thursday warned WikiLeaks against releasing more documents. "It would compound a mistake that has already put far too many lives at risk," said Geoff Morrell, deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs.
"The only responsible course of action for them is to immediately remove all the stolen documents from their website and expunge all classified material from their computers," he said. "If they were to publish any additional documents after hearing our concerns about the harm it will cause our forces, our allies and innocent Afghan civilians, it would be the height of irresponsibility."
But Assange said he is "absolutely" committed to moving forward with the release. "A lot of the recent criticism about Afghanistan was totally expected," Assange said Thursday.
"Every time we take on one of these big organizations, they try and try to find various ways to criticize us, and there might even be some legitimate criticism in this case," he said. "But we did try hard to keep back some material."
The Defense Department has demanded WikiLeaks return all documents belonging to the Pentagon and delete any records of the documents, Morrell said last week.
"The only acceptable course is for WikiLeaks to take steps immediately to return all versions of all of these documents to the U.S. government and permanently delete them from its website, computers and records," Morrell said.
Assange has previously said his Web site has an additional 15,000 documents that it wants to publish but that it is redacting information that could endanger people named.
Through The New York Times, the organization has asked the Obama administration for its guidance on what to redact. A recently published report suggested the site has asked the Pentagon directly as well. Morrell, however, denied that claim last week.
"WikiLeaks has made no such request directly to the Department of Defense," he said. Morrell stated that other steps would be considered if WikiLeaks is not willing to cooperate.
On Thursday, Assange continued to allege that the Pentagon had been unresponsive to his requests.
"So far we have had no assistance, despite repeated requests, from the White House or the Pentagon or in fact any of the three press organizations that we partnered with for this material, (who) decided not to take responsibility for actually getting the raw data out to the public."
"That in fact appears to be our role," he said, "...to get the raw data out to the public."
Several humanitarian organizations have reached out to WikiLeaks to warn that the leaked documents it posts on its site could endanger the lives of civilians whose names appear in them.
On Thursday, the international journalists' group Reporters Without Borders wrote a letter to Assange that accused his group of showing "incredible irresponsibility," by publishing tens of thousands documents from the Afghanistan war last month.
The letter said that "revealing the identity of hundreds of people who collaborated with the coalition in Afghanistan is highly dangerous. It would not be hard for the Taliban and other armed groups to use these documents to draw up a list of people for targeting in deadly revenge attacks."
Other groups have asked WikiLeaks to redact names in the tens of thousands of secret documents already posted, as well as to be more careful to "protect civilians" in subsequent document reviews, according to an official from one of the other human rights groups. That official did not want to be identified because the communications were intended to be private.
The groups include Innocent Victims in Conflict, Amnesty International-Afghanistan and the Open Society Institute.[/QUOTE]
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Hmm....
What are they going to fuck up this time?
good
I look forward to reading them
they'd better have filtered through this for names and other information that can be used to identify innocent individuals better than they did the last batch
Free speech succeeds or government censorship?
TUNE IN NEXT TIME FOR THE THRILLING CONCLUSION
[QUOTE=JDK721;24046406]good
I look forward to reading them[/QUOTE]
you best for all of us cuz we know the republics are gonna try to keep it down like they did with the moon landing and free lazer guns!!!
I like their hutzpah.
[QUOTE=JDK721;24046406]good
I look forward to reading them[/QUOTE]
You live a pretty dull life, don't you?
I love how the article barely mentions the fact that they were delayed so they can censor the names.
[QUOTE=HolyCrusade;24046458]you best for all of us cuz we know the republics are gonna try to keep it down like they did with the moon landing and free lazer guns!!![/QUOTE]
this is a terrible post
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[QUOTE=Vinze;24046467]You live a pretty dull life, don't you?[/QUOTE]
go back to ranting how religion is terrible and that anyone who is religious is an idiot and should be killed
I need to read these later. I've been hearing a shit ton about WikiLeaks. Anyone able to give me a brief summary?
I don't know what to think anymore. :ohdear:
[QUOTE=JDK721;24046521]this is a terrible post[/QUOTE]
That was me playing "idiot who tries to bring Republicans into every thread despite it bearing no relevance to the thread." Do you like it?
[QUOTE=Vinze;24046467]You live a pretty dull life, don't you?[/QUOTE]
Great job derailing the thread, go preach your views in the other thread.
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[QUOTE=HolyCrusade;24046561]That was me playing "idiot who tries to bring Republicans into every thread despite it bearing no relevance to the thread." Do you like it?[/QUOTE]
dude, you're pretty bad at this
No I'm not trying to bait you, might as well go and put back the original post.
As for these documents, hopefully they were properly censored this time. There should be no reason for innocent lives to be put at stake.
[QUOTE=starpluck;24046480]I love how the article barley mentions the fact that they were delayed so thy can censor the names.[/QUOTE]
I too love how mainstream American media lies repeatedly.
[QUOTE=starpluck;24046480]I love how the article [b]barley[/b] mentions the fact that they were delayed so thy can censor the names.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://www.hgca.com/images/upload/barley.jpg[/img]
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[QUOTE=wonkadonk;24046699][img_thumb]http://www.hgca.com/images/upload/barley.jpg[/img_thumb]
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I made a fantastic triple pun in that wheat thread and got dumbs for it, I don't think Facepunch likes grain very much
[QUOTE=ZekeTwo;24046756]I made a fantastic triple pun in that wheat thread and got dumbs for it, I don't think Facepunch likes grain very much[/QUOTE]
Maybe corny puns put people through intense grain?
I look forward to Julian Assange being found dead in an apparent suicide.
[QUOTE=MingusMajor;24046811]I look forward to Julian Assange being found dead in an apparent suicide.[/QUOTE]
why
My chain of command already told us not to confirm or deny anything on that site... I hardly know anything about the situation, but the benefits to this cannot possibly outweigh the risks.
[QUOTE=MingusMajor;24046811]I look forward to Julian Assange being found dead in an apparent suicide.[/QUOTE]
And why is that exactly? In detail please, not just bandwagon bullshit. I bet 90% of Assanage haters are like those tea party people that couldn't actually explain WHAT Obama was doing wrong, just that he sucked and they hated him.
I'm surprised that wikileaks is still up. And I'm also surprised that INTERPOL hasn't arrested Julian Assange on Espionage charges and had him shipped to America where we will waterboard the shit out of him and throw his sorry ass in a maximum security prison.
[QUOTE=MingusMajor;24046811]I look forward to Julian Assange being found dead in an apparent suicide.[/QUOTE]
what the fuck is wrong with you
[QUOTE=wonkadonk;24046845]why[/QUOTE]
I think Mingus is the Swedish nazi hyper-conservative, leave him be
[QUOTE=CjienX;24046880]And why is that exactly? In detail please, not just bandwagon bullshit. I bet 90% of Assanage haters are like those tea party people that couldn't actually explain WHAT Obama was doing wrong, just that he sucked and they hated him.[/QUOTE]
Hey Jackass, that dickhead posted a whole shitload of reports [B][I]LISTING THE NAMES OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO GAVE INFORMATION TO THE U.S. ABOUT THE TALIBAN[/I][/B]. And the taliban vowed to hunt down all of them. He could be responsible for hundreds of slow and painful deaths.
Is that a good enough reason for you?
[QUOTE=italics560;24046916]I'm surprised that wikileaks is still up. And I'm also surprised that INTERPOL hasn't arrested Julian Assange on Espionage charges and had him shipped to America where we will waterboard the shit out of him and throw his sorry ass in a maximum security prison.[/QUOTE]
Sweden. No chance.
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[QUOTE=italics560;24046972]Hey Jackass, that dickhead posted a whole shitload of reports [B][I]LISTING THE NAMES OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO GAVE INFORMATION TO THE U.S. ABOUT THE TALIBAN[/I][/B]. And the taliban vowed to hunt down all of them. He could be responsible for hundreds of slow and painful deaths.
Is that a good enough reason for you?[/QUOTE]
their fault for having lax security on their data.
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