Leaking the Truth About Afghanistan

MANY LINKS BELOW - The first installment of the 250,000 documents leaked to Wikileaks by (most likely) Bradley Manning - currently in US custody and likely to face sentencing in a US military kangaroo court. But this is just the beginning. Manning says he released 250,000 documents - Wikleaks says they themselves redacted another 15,000 documents on legitimate security grounds - but this leaves another 140,000+ of Mannings' claimed documents currently unaccounted for. Also, Julian Assange refered in a recent interview to a 1,000,000 document backlog from a flood of potential whistleblowers that Wikileaks is currently sorting through.

The Guardian's excellent site devoted to this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/afghanistan-the-war-logs

Glenn Greenwald's analysis:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/07/25/wikileaks?source...

Full hour Democracy Now on the topic:

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/26/the_new_pentagon_papers_wikileaks_releases

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[loctia1]

you speak about this points very well(which i already knew)but can never be stated enough!! Hunter

[MadBadVoodo]

Just a little more Hope and Change!! It's time 2 IMPEACH OBAMA 4 WAR CRIMES!!!!!

[tenagliac]

It feels like the pentagon papers all over again. If the deeds we do cannot stand on their own, cannot stand the light of day, then I doubt that they are morally or ethically defensible. Aren't we over there to make it a "better" world ? Then shouldn't the documentation prove it ? If the information is unreliable, untrue and full of lies, consider the author. Julian Assange has an antiwar agenda ? Sure, but he didn't author the documents. The is the press at it's best.

[neotoy]

"Ending this fucking war." Hear, hear.

[TheAkeh]

why do you guys act cold when it's US army or Israeli's army is questioned with crime wars, but when it comes to others countries "oh god" you guys start like: "what a savages, we should occupy your land to bring justice"

what a trade mark, stop pretending what you aren't.

[tyrbolo]

That freedom of the press is a pretty hard nut choke down if it gets used.

You can bet that the reaction will be to claim danger to the military.

They are already in danger from our policymakers which is nothing new.

[55ella2007k]

@Capitalocracy I agree, it probably won't be enough to end the war by itself, but hopefully it will make a contribution towards that end.

[Capitalocracy]

@Capitalocracy What I really hope this will lead to is a conversation about government secrecy. I'm sick of this "lives in danger" excuse. They use it knowing full well it doesn't stand to any scrutiny, but they're relying on a cooperative media and fear to maintain the illusion. Impossible, but they can force us to pretend.

[Capitalocracy]

Interesting stuff indeed. No denying what's going on now, but we'll see all the same spin, that it's necessary, that the law doesn't apply to us, etc. I would be surprised if this was enough to end the war.