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HSK – U.S. investigates Afghanistan war leaks
By mandarinbjcn | July 27, 2010
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| 1st Sergeant Buddy Hartlaub with the U.S. Army’s 1-320 Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division takes aim at a suspected Taliban position at Combat Outpost Nolen in the Arghandab Valley north of Kandahar, Afghanistan, July 22, 2010. (Xinhua/Reuters File Photo) |
Video: US classified military files leaked on website
WASHINGTON, July 26 (Xinhua) — White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs on Monday said the United States is investigating the leak of over 90,000 classified reports about Afghanistan war.
Gibbs said “there is an ongoing investigation that predated the end of last week into leaks of highly classified secret documents, ” and President Barack Obama has been notified last week.
The White House was notified by news media outlets about the leaks. Gibbs called it “a breach of federal law,” that “has a potential to be very harmful to those that are in our military, those that are cooperating with our military, and those that are working to keep us safe.”
The Pentagon earlier said it is reviewing the leaked documents, and it hasn’t determined the leak’s source yet.
The documents, posted Sunday on Wikileaks, cover a period of time from January 2004 to December 2009, consisted of reports written by soldiers and intelligence officers mainly describing lethal military actions involving the U.S. military.
They includes “intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related detail,” according to the site, giving a blow- by-blow account of the war over the last six years, which has so far cost the lives of more than 1,000 U.S. troops.
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Afghan gov’t shocked by leakage of U.S. military reports
KABUL, July 26 (Xinhua) — The chief spokesman of Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday said that the Afghan government was shocked by leakage of the U.S. military reports – a huge number of classified documents of its international partners.
“We were shocked by the facts that certain numbers, the huge number of documents were leaked,” Waheed Omar told a weekly press conference here. Full story
Pentagon reviews leaked documents, unsure of source
WASHINGTON, July 26 (Xinhua) — The Pentagon on Monday said it is reviewing leaked documents related to the Afghanistan war on a whistleblower website, and it hasn’t determined the leak’s source yet.
Department spokesman Dave Lapan said the documents, more than 90,000 records of incidents and intelligence reports about the Afghanistan war, could “take a matter of days if not weeks” to review, so that officials can determine its potential damage to U. S. troops and allies, and national security. Full story
Canada worried about Afghan document leak
OTTAWA, July 26 (Xinhua) — Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon said on Monday that the leak of thousands of secret United States military and intelligence reports about the war in Afghanistan could endanger the lives of Canadian soldiers based there.
Cannon told a news conference here that the federal government is obviously concerned about operational leaks on the Afghanistan mission.
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