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WikiLeaks Near Release Of Secret US War Documents
Website Could Release Largest Cache Of Secret US Documents In History
PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writers

POSTED: 4:04 am MDT October 22, 2010
UPDATED: 9:06 am MDT October 22, 2010

That was all there was...The rest must be a secret.

The WikiLeaks website has promised a "major announcement" in Europe on Saturday, in a message on its Twitter feed, amid speculation it will release a tranche of secret documents about the Iraq war.

"Major WikiLeaks announcement in Europe at 10am tomorrow," said the message, appearing to confirm that the site is preparing to leak what the US military and NATO fear will be tens of thousands of classified military papers.

How did Wiki get these documents?

One word comes to mind, Traitors. Catch them, then shoot them. Save alot of tax payer dollars.

What they will do if that is what is going to happen, is endanger the military forces currently serving there. We should hold them accountable for that.

WikiLeaks says logs show 15,000 more Iraq deaths

LONDON (Reuters) – WikiLeaks said on Saturday its release of nearly 400,000 classified U.S. files on the Iraq war showed 15,000 more Iraqi civilians died than previously thought.

Uploaded on the WikiLeaks' website, the files detailed gruesome cases of prisoner abuse by Iraqi forces that the U.S. military knew about but did not seem to investigate.

Working with Iraq Body Count, a group run by academics and peace activists that estimates Iraq casualties, WikiLeaks had calculated that the documents revealed about 15,000 previously unknown civilian deaths, Assange said.

"Adding in the combatant deaths reported in these logs ... we are now able to say that more than 150,000 people have been killed in total since 2003, of which about 80 percent were civilians," Iraq Body Count co-founder John Sloboda said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101024/tc_ ... leaks_iraq

If I recollect correctly, we live in an open society. (Or at least that is what we are told as children.) But, national secrets have multiplied exponentially in the last 60 years.

It takes a few document releases to clear the air every once in a while. It gets the "coverups" out into the open, out from under the "national security" hideaway.

I wish they'd leak something on Roswell or the Kennedy assassination...

I think they should get medals...not condemnation. The best disinfectant for these kinds of secrets is sunlight.

navycpo7 wrote: One word comes to mind, Traitors. Catch them, then shoot them. Save alot of tax payer dollars.

So you'd just throw the First Amendment out the window?

No, just the traitors, well not just the traitors, all the kool-aid drinkers too. Pineguy, do you really think that when the National Security is at stake, including the lives of the young men and women in the armed forces, that it is okay to do this?

Don't we draw the line somewhere?