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WikiLeaks' Assange Strikes Back at Pentagon

(July 30) -- A day after a senior Pentagon official asserted that WikiLeaks may have blood on its hands for posting classified documents on the war in Afghanistan, the site's founder blasted the Pentagon's leadership today for not announcing a broad inquiry into the war efforts. In a video aired on CNN, a somber-faced...

WikiLeaks' Afghanistan Documents: Was Bradley Manning the Source?

(July 26) -- WikiLeaks' release of a trove of Afghan War documents has put the spotlight back on Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old Army private now imprisoned in Kuwait, accused of leaking classified State Department documents and the infamous "Collateral Murder" video to the activist website. The Wall Street Journal...

Julian Assange Press Conference: 10 Things the WikiLeaks Founder Wants the World to Know

(July 26) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gave a press conference at the Frontline Club in London today to address the 75,000 Afghan war documents that the organization published Sunday. The group says it will publish an additional 15,000 documents once they have been scrubbed of any names that could potentially put...

Background on afghan war diary

The Afghan War documents leak is the disclosure of a collection of internal U.S. military logs of the War in Afghanistan, also called the Afghan War Diary, which were published by WikiLeaks on 2010. The logs consist of 91,731 documents, covering the period between January 2004 and December 2009. Most of the documents are classified Secret.

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