The White House has condemned the leaks of more than 90,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan posted by the whistleblower website, Wikileaks.
The Pentagon earlier called the release "criminal", and said it could take weeks to assess any damage that the leaks may have caused.
Rosiland Jordan reports on Washington's reaction to what is now being called the Afghan war logs. (July 27, 2010)
Monday, July 26, 2010
Wikileaks, blowing the whistle
92,000 internal records, related to the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to present were leaked yesterday from the whistle blowing website Wikileaks.org. The documents include plans and accounts of Coalition operations, descriptions of enemy attacks and records of meetings with local Afghan politicians, among other things.
Wikileaks Releases Secret Afghan War Documents
AssociatedPress--July 26, 2010--Some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records posted online Sunday amount to a blow-by-blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures.
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