Pentagon
DoD Asks Media Not to Publish Secret Docs
October 18, 2010 - 1:39 PM | by: Justin FishelWASHINGTON — The Pentagon is bracing itself for another massive, classified document from self-proclaimed whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, and this time it’s asking reporters not publish the senstive information that WikiLeaks provides.
Col. David Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman, made the request to reporters on Monday morning during a daily off camera briefing.
WikiLeaks has already released 77,000 classified documents related to the Afghan war, and now WikiLeaks says it has as many as 400,000 documents on the Iraq war.
The Pentagon has established a 120-man working group to review the 77,000 Afghan documents and the Iraq documents it believes WikiLeaks might have. Top Pentagon officials, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen, have said the Afghan documents did not reveal the nation’s most sensitive intelligence, but it did name Afghans who cooperated with the U.S. Military, which puts those lives at risk.
It’s unclear when WikilLeaks will release the Iraq documents, but based on previous statements made by the website the Pentagon is prepared for a release as soon as this week.



























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