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Date: Monday, July 26, 2010, 5:45 PM
US ‘Strongly Condemns’ Mass Publication of
Afghan War Docs
Jones Terms Leaks a 'Threat to National Security'
by Jason Ditz,
July 25, 2010
http://news. antiwar.com/ 2010/07/25/ us-strongly- condemns- mass-publication
-of-afghan- war-docs/
Just as The Guardian released a massive collection of leaked Afghan War
documents obtained from WikiLeaks, the US government publicly condemned the
release, with National Security Adviser James Jones taking the lead in the
condemnations.
Bradley Manning
“The
United States strongly condemns the disclosure of classified
information by individuals and organizations which could put the lives
of Americans and our partners at risk, and threaten our national
security ,” Jones declared in a statement released by the White House.
Jones further complaining that WikiLeaks handed the documents over to the press
instead of contacting the administration first. WikiLeaks released some 90,000
classified documents, apparently the result of the enormous collection of such
files released by Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst who was charged with
violating Army regulations for the transfer.
The documents run from 2004 through the end of 2009 and cover a
myriad of topics related to the Afghan War, from the grim (documents
related to the US covering up civilian deaths) to the absurd (a plot accusing
Pakistan’s ISI Agency of plotting to poison Hamid Karzai’s beer).
All told, the “War Logs,”
as The Guardian is calling them, include details on some 300 key
reports, each and every one of enormous potential embarrassment to
officials. From friendly fire deaths to the US “black unit” assassination team
roaming Southern Afghanistan, the full details of what may well be the
biggest intelligence leak in US history will likely not be completely
absorbed for weeks or even months.
The
number of official stories which have turned out to be complete lies is
absolutely staggering, and paints a picture of an ever-worsening war
which, while not a surprise to anyone paying close attention, certainly
flies in the face of what the Obama Administration’s officials tell the
American public.
The leaks may well do harm to the war effort, but they will only do
so in that they reveal the shameful policies the Bush and now the Obama
Administration have been adopting over the past decade. One surely
cannot blame Bradley Manning, or even WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange,
for that.
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