WikiLeaks Prepares Next Big Document Dump, While Media and Pentagon Continue Smear Campaign Against

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WikiLeaks Prepares Next Big Document Dump, While Media and Pentagon Continue Smear Campaign Against Its Founder

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Monday 20 September 2010

by: Scott Thill | AlterNet | Report

Attacks on Wikileaks are really an attack on free speech says its founder, Julian Assange.

Scheduled for release in the next few weeks in concert with international and American media outlets, Wikileaks' data dump on Iraq could prove to be just as explosive as its download on Afghanistan.

According to Newsweek, the Iraq collection is already three times larger than the 92,000 Afghan field reports made public in Wikileaks' last release, and perhaps the largest in history. It predictably details American military participation in bloody conflicts as well as detainee abuse conducted by Iraqi security forces. It's unclear at this point if its documents were submitted by Private First Class Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. military intelligence analyst who was charged in July with leaking the chilling Collateral Murder video to Wikileaks. Manning is already looking at over 50 years in prison for Uniform Code of Military Justice violations of "transferring classified data onto his personal computer and adding unauthorized software to a classified computer system" and "communicating, transmitting and delivering national defense information to an unauthorized source."

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1. Document dump seems like the right word instead of leaks, nothing really new but lots of words