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Archive for July 28th, 2010

A Bad Day For U.S. Intelligence—In Afghanistan and Around The World: The Afghan WikiLeaks Scandal

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Life just got a lot harder for American intelligence operatives.  What’s worse:  life just got a lot more dangerous for US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, our allies, the Iraqi and Afghan people…and us, here at home.

Apparently an American soldier downloaded thousands of intelligence reports and other military documents—many of them classified, virtually all of them sensitive in some way—and leaked them to WikiLeaks.  WikiLeaks has now posted them for the world to see.

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