92,000 Classified Documents Pertaining to Afghan War Released By Wikileaks
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, July 26, 2010, 5:46 AM
92,000 classified documents pertaining to Afghanistan War were leaked by Wikileaks this weekend. SPIEGEL, the New York Times and the Guardian have analyzed the classified documents already.
Der Spiegel reported, via Kristinn:
Close to 92,000 US documents have been uncovered that shed new light on the war in Afghanistan. In an unprecedented development, close to 92,000 classified documents pertaining to the war in Afghanistan have been leaked. SPIEGEL, the New York Times and the Guardian have analyzed the raft of mostly classified documents. They expose the true scale of the Western military deployment — and the problems beleaguering Germany’s Bundeswehr in the Hindu Kush.
A total of 91,731 reports from United States military databanks relating to the war in Afghanistan are to be made publicly available on the Internet. Never before has it been possible to compare the reality on the battlefield in such a detailed manner with what the US Army propaganda machinery is propagating. WikiLeaks plans to post the documents, most of which are classified, on its website.
Britain’s Guardian newspaper, the New York Times and SPIEGEL have all vetted the material and compared the data with independent reports. All three media have concluded that the documents are authentic and provide an unvarnished image of the war in Afghanistan — from the perspective of the soldiers who are fighting it.
The reports, from troops engaged in the ongoing combat, were tersely summarized and quickly dispatched. For the most part, they originate from sergeants — but some have been penned by the occasional lieutenant at a command post or ranking analysts with the military intelligence service.
UPDATE: Dan Friedman added this:
“The leaks” released on Sunday were perfectly timed and coordinated to dominate this week’s news (at least). WikiLeaks promises there’s going to be much more and its founder (who should be in jail) has already said “he believes there is evidence of war crimes.” At first blush, the reaction from conservatives, the ones who are all-in for the Afghan and Iraq wars, has been cautious and muted – a slight upgrade I suppose from stunned silence.
The Weekly Standard’s Gabriel Schoenfeld touched on the massive breach of security. Otherwise, the best the conservative magazine could muster this morning on the political fallout was the affair would “almost certainly reignite the public debate over the war in Afghanistan, and the Obama administration’s strategy there.” After the liberals and the left get finished picking at this bone, we’ll all look back and marvel at what a quaint understatement that turned out to be.Make no mistake, the starting gun has sounded and a great game of recriminations and finger pointing has begun that – like the Pentagon Papers - will profoundly effect how this country wages war. And if the right naively believes the Afghan ball is in Obama’s court and they can find cover behind him, all they need to do is remember our brave commander-in-chief’s four favorite words: It. Was. Bush’s. Fault.
Yesterday, they were given new life.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 89 Comments
maria commented:
means: sh*t hits the fan
FreakyBoy commented:
Leaks during the Bush admin: Totally Awesome!!!
Leaks during the Obama admin: “Irresponsible”.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40204.html
Granny commented:
I guess what surprises me the most about this is the response from the White House, which seems to have been taken totally off guard with this release. How that is possible, I’ve no clue, since the fact that Wikileaks had these documents and intended to release them has been floating around the internet for several weeks.
Anyone know if this is that collection the traitor in Iraq downloaded and sold?
Ginger commented:
I am hearing that the information from this leak is only during president Bush tennor! I have also heard that the guy that broke into the files could not have done it alone!
DaMav commented:
From what I’ve seen thus far, this massive attempt by 3 left wing media giants to give aid and comfort to the Taliban and al Qaeda is turning sputtering like a wet fuse.
There’s a war on and some civilians are being killed. This is news? There is corruption in the Afghan, just like in Chicago and in the US House of Representatives — wow. Apparently there is no indication of the covert message to the troops from Dick Cheney urging them to submit to Halliburton nor the Bush Covert Order to seize the huge oil assets in Kandahar Province. Where’s the beef?
Given the last attempt by Wikileaks to falsely accuse the US military of deliberately killing children and cheering about it this mostly seems like a marketing attempt on their part, aided and assisted by the giants of the dinosaur media.
Closing question — can we get some charges of treason out of this?
bg commented:
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does it really matter??
it’s all part of Obama’s plan to annihilate wars..
besides..
with the Islamists President in charge,
there is very little
the enemy doesn’t already know..
God help US, we’re not..
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Ginger commented:
I also hear that Barry is going on the “View” I guess the hags will get a tickle up their??????? I guess he thinks that the hags (not Elizebeth) can keep the “mama girzzles” from voteing against him! lol lol lol
Joe commented:
How did this info get leaked? Does anyone know how it happened? Thought it was interesting that the Guardian and the NYT received the information, two left wing newspapers, neither of which really cares about safety of their respective countries or the men and women who fight the wars.
Yep commented:
I am hearing that the information from this leak is only during president Bush tenor!
http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=554372
snip:
the massive new leak by WikiLeaks of 90,000 pages of classified material chronicling the truth about the war in Afghanistan from 2004 through 2009.
bg commented:
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Joe @ 6:59 am #9
re: [How did this info get leaked?]
deliberately..
and in just enough “let simmer on front burner” time before any outright out of context attacks on the BA, egro, the Reps, in an attempt to salvage a Democrat defeat in November via shifting the focus & blame on the usual racists, uhm, suspects..
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bg commented:
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Doc Dump
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Chisum commented:
WikiLeaks And Journolists
Question:
How many of the Journolists who object to the release of their e-mails regarding the 2008 presidential campaign will spend the next several days gloating over the publication by WikiLeaks of over 90,000 classified military documents regarding the war in Afghanistan?
An inconvenient truth?
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/07/wikileaks-and-journolists.html
wanumba commented:
Obama Administration:
Implausible deniability.
Their little back-stabbing present to Petraeus.
Agent99 commented:
More to come!! Julian Assange and Daniel Schmidt (WikiLeak) Founders have ‘literally’ thousands more. “More US Documents Coming On A-Stan War” BTW Julian Assange won Amnesty International film award for KENYA! Small world… Julian Assange is a Hacker among other things. 24 Warrants out for him in Australia. Fears (even before this RECENT ‘leak’) of coming to the USA! He is a SYMPATHETIC character for HufPo Salon and the ‘usual suspects’. Video @ TelefraphUK and all over the internet. But ofcourse….HE IS A TRAITOR. ((He suggests time for WAR CRIMES)) From AolNews.
Agent99 commented:
It’s not JUST Docs It is Video too HERE is Assange (Followed by lots of Video) From TelegraphUK http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/jul/25/julian-assange-wikileaks-interview-warlogs BTW there was PLENTY of Time to STOP/Prevent this from being leaked. But BHO did NOT protect our Military. The Prez of the USA is supposed to be the Leader of the Free World. So BHO could have gotten an injunction. BHO should have many resources per the US Gov’t to stifle or STOP this. But he did not!! Gen Jim Jones has pointed out that this is a Bush Problem as BHO ”just” revised the A-Stan stratedgy.
Agent99 commented:
Read This http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/06/bradley-manning-charged-iraq-killings-video “A US army intelligence analyst was today charged with leaking a highly classified video of American forces killing unarmed civilians in Baghdad and secret diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks.
Private Bradley Manning, who had a top-secret security clearance, has been held in military custody in Kuwait since his arrest in Iraq in May over the video, which caused great embarrassment to the US military establishment. It showed an air strike that killed a dozen people, including two Iraqis working for Reuters news agency. The air crew is heard falsely claiming to have encountered a firefight in Baghdad and then laughing at the dead. WikiLeaks gave the video the title Collateral Murder.
Manning, 22, was arrested after boasting in instant messages and emails to a high-profile former hacker, Adrian Lamo, that he passed the material to WikiLeaks along with thousands of pages of confidential American diplomatic cables.
…..” “”WikiLeaks has since said it plans to release a second US military video that shows one of the deadliest US air strikes in Afghanistan, in which scores of children were believed to have been killed. The site’s founder, Julian Assange, said the organisation was still working to prepare the encrypted film of the bombing of the Afghan village of Garani in May 2009, in which the Afghan government said about 140 civilians died, including 92 children…..” {{THE US Gov (aka) BHO knew this was coming.}} “Manning gave the video to WikiLeaks in February. The site made it public two months later after breaking the encryption.
Lamo said that what disturbed him was a boast by Manning that he had sent 260,000 pages of confidential diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks. “Hillary Clinton, and several thousand diplomats around the world, are going to have a heart attack when they wake up one morning, and find an entire repository of classified foreign policy is available, in searchable format, to the public,” Manning is said to have written. Lamo said he met military investigators and the FBI because he feared the leak of diplomatic cables endangered US security. Lamo told Wired: “He was in a war zone and basically trying to vacuum up as much classified information as he could, and just throwing it up into the air.”
Yes BHO knew this was coming!! Could have stopped this but NO! Just ‘blame Bush’ …. This is High Treason
Agent99 commented:
GRANNY!!! Looks like it is that Traitor Bradley Manning. (Photo of him ..just 22 yrs old…with a fake smile….@ Link above) To Granny…How is this possible…..JMHO but BHO knew all about this did nothing then …Blamed Bush! Treason Charges should be brought. About BHO’s Blackberry …Just today the UAE says “Blackberries are a Security Risk”
donh commented:
This story broke a few hours after Drudge posted the story about Lockerbie Bomber release. Isn’t Wikileaks a George Soros entity? Could be a cluster bomb document dump to distract attention from Obama’s guilt over Al Megrahi
ice commented:
We all remember Climategate….the hacking and dump of emails regarding global warming did huge damage to the Liberals. As to who did the hacking we may never know.
I will believe that the Obama Administration learned from the ‘Climategate information dump’ and did a ‘leaked dump’ of their own. Sure Obama can act shocked and condemn the information, but when all is said and done, I am sure that there will be information that will continue to stay in the media. It will be all smoke and mirrors, and while the media plays out these leaked documents, the Administration will be moving in the opposite direction.
This is a manufactured crisis intended to draw the publics attention.
wanumba commented:
The military cannot function if everything it does it public.
This undermines our ENTIRE defensive structure, not just Afghanistan. The White House knew very well all about it -the news was all over the internet months ago, they know, they knew. Serves their political purposes to cripple our military. Terrifying what they’ve given out that we DON’T know about.
DavidD commented:
Whoever gave this information to Wikileaks should go on trial for treason and, if convicted, should be executed by firing squad–and the whole thing should be broadcast on Fox.
JustaGirl commented:
How can it be that telling the truth = treason?
Chip Walker commented:
“While I’m concerned about the disclosure of sensitive information from the battlefield that could potentially jeopardize individuals or operations, the fact is these documents don’t reveal any issues that haven’t already informed our public debate on Afghanistan,” Mr. Obama said to reporters in the Rose Garden.
Doesn’t sound like treason to me.
bg commented:
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The Bomshell
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