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Germany gave assassination list to secret US unit
The German government supplied a secret Pentagon task force with names of Taliban leaders that the US then could target for assassination, documents show. Buried in the 92,000 pages of documents released by the Web site Wikileaks is evidence that show the German government abetted a secret program to kill…
A reading list to help understand Wikileaks’ ‘War Logs’
This morning, The New York Times, England’s The Guardian and Germany’s Der Spiegel published reports on what’s been termed the “War Logsâ€Ââ€â€nearly 92,000 documents about the war in Afghanistan made public by WikiLeaks. To put the leaked documents in context, we pulled together some of the best, past reporting on the main themes in…
‘Snitch’ hacker: ‘War logs’ leaker didn’t act alone
Perhaps ABC News is upset that this leak didn’t go to them. After all, the past few years have been good for ABC News when it comes to leaks: the network has profited from former Republican Congressman Mark Foley’s explicit email logs and countless terror-related stories. But Monday morning, ABC’s…
US documents leaked online give inside look at war
Update: Daniel Ellsberg says first leak in forty years “of the scale of the Pentagon Papers” The US government’s most notorious — but also decorated — whistleblower believes that the Wikileaks war logs drop is the biggest leak to emerge in over forty years. Daniel Ellsberg, a former military analyst…
Leaked documents claim Pakistan’s ISI directing Afghan insurgency
The United States on Sunday denounced the release of documents that allegedly show Pakistan’s military spy service is guiding the Afghan insurgency, a White House official said. “The United States strongly condemns the disclosure of classified information by individuals and organizations which could put the lives of Americans and our…
Update: Wikileaks ‘confirms’ it has video of US massacre in Afghanistan
The whistleblower website that posted video of a US Army helicopter firing on unarmed civilians and killing two Reuters employees is ready to do it again, its founder says. (A screenshot of the clip appears at right; video available at this link.) Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange says he has obtained…
Daniel Ellsberg fears a US hit on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
Update: A New York Times article Saturday notes, “In 17 months in office, President Obama has already outdone every previous president in pursuing leak prosecutions.” Scott Shane reports for the Times that the “Obama administration is proving more aggressive than the Bush administration in seeking to punish unauthorized leaks” and…
US ‘desperately’ trying to keep Wikileaks from publishing US communications about Arab states
Philip Shenon, a former New York Times reporter now writing for Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast, alleged late Thursday that the Pentagon is “desperately” searching for the founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks, out of concern he is about to publish classified US State Department cables. Curiously, the piece cites…
Leaked video shows US forces killing reporters, civilians
McChrystal: ‘We’ve shot an amazing number of people … none has proven to have been a real threat to the force’ US military personnel apparently mistook the cameras slung over the backs of two Reuters journalists for weapons when they opened fire on them and a group of people in…
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