Secret Document Calls Wikileaks ‘Threat’ to U.S. Army
David Kravets writes on WIRED’s Threat Level:
Wikileaks presents a “threat to the U.S. Army” and publishes “potentially actionable information” for targeting military personnel, according to a classified intelligence report posted on the whistleblowing site.
The 32-page report entitled Wikileaks.org — An Online Reference to Foreign Intelligence Services, Insurgents, or Terrorist Groups? indicates the government’s concern that “current employees or moles” within the Defense Department or the U.S. government “are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks.” To stop this, the 2008 report had suggested a campaign to expose and punish those who leak to the site, which was founded in 2007 by Chinese dissidents, journalists and mathematicians.
“Wikileaks.org uses trust as a center of gravity by assuring insiders, leakers, and whistleblowers who pass information to Wikileaks.org personnel or who post information to the…
WikiLeaks Is Overloaded By Global Interest
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, you’ve got to hand it to the people who run WikiLeaks, they’re fearless. In Britain some of the most loathsome, violent modern day fascistic racists belong to the British National Party. As this report in The Guardian discusses, Wikileaks has published a detailed list of nearly 12,000 BNP members, showing names, addresses and phone numbers.
A great shame, then, that when you visit the Wikileaks site you only see this message:
WikiLeaks is currently overloaded by readers. This is a regular difficulty that can only be resolved by deploying additional resources.
They’re asking for financial help (details on the WikiLeaks site). Meanwhile, the Guardian report is worth reading:
A detailed membership list of the British National party containing names, addresses and telephone numbers was published on the internet this morning.
The list, which…
