Pentagon cautions news media on WikiLeaks documents

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Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - The Pentagon urged news organizations on Monday not to publish classified U.S. documents due to be released by WikiLeaks as U.S. officials brace for a mass disclosure of leaked Iraq war files by the whistle-blower website.

WikiLeaks, which in July released some 70,000 U.S. documents on the Afghanistan war, is expected soon to post on its website as many as 500,000 classified leaked U.S. documents from the Iraq war. The U.S. government in July condemned the release of the initial leaked documents, which painted a grim picture of the war in Afghanistan that began in 2001.

Pentagon spokesman Colonel David Lapan said the U.S. military is "absolutely" urging WikiLeaks to "return the stolen documents to the United States government and ... not publish them." Lapan also appealed to the news media.

"News organizations should be cautioned not to facilitate the leaking of classified documents with this disreputable organization known as WikiLeaks," Lapan said.

"The concern is that WikiLeaks as an organization should not be made more credible by having credible news organizations facilitate what they're doing," he said.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69G19520101018

[Poll_Blind]

1. We commit crimes with your money. Please help us keep them secret. KTHXVOTE! n/t

PB

[MinneapolisMatt]

2. I shouldn't laugh at your post...

...but I did.

[Vinnie From Indy]

3. God forbid Americans see what their tax dollars have purchased

n/t

[crim son]

4. And by "cautions"

it means "threatens."

[L. Coyote]

5. Fortunately, USA law is not global (yet).

And, people living under USA law can (still) access the WWW and read global news to find out some of what happens in the USA.

[Nihil]

6. Not from lack of trying. (n/t)