HEADS-UP !!! - From March 16th... 'US Army Considered Attack On Wikileaks' !!!

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US Army considered attack on Wikileaks
By Chris Williams
Posted in Government, 16th March 2010 12:08 GMT

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It is claimed that leaked documents show the US Army felt sufficiently threatened by security breaches on Wikileaks that it considered ways it might wreck the site.

A 2008 report by the Army Counterintelligence Center, classified Secret, calls for a mole hunt and prosecutions to undermine potential sources' trust in Wikileaks.

"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 Web site that they will remain anonymous," the report said.

"The identification, exposure, or termination of employment of or legal actions against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistleblowers could damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others from using Wikileaks.org to make such information public."

None of the site's sources have yet been publicly exposed, however. The site aims to guarantee their anonymity, and the counterintelligence assessment notes a "high level of sophistication in efforts to provide a secure operating environment for whistleblowers".

The report is available in full, here: http://file.wikileaks.org/file/us-intel-wikileaks.pdf

The investigation appears to have been prompted by US Army leaks in 2007. Documents posted to Wikileaks included embarrassing internal reports on operations in Iraq, and equipment lists for Afganistan and Iraq. One report obtained by Wikileaks, on the 2004 US offensive on Fallujah, received particular attention from counterintelligence analysts.

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Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/16/army_wikileaks/

Don't know much about The Register, but found it through here: http://news.google.com/news/more?hl=en&q=wikileaks&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ncl=dwQ_HUwjRB-YJaMHwANGhFUeAV7SM&ei=cUi6S_6KDY269QSN2szqAw&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&cd=1&resnum=3&ved=0CEYQqgIoADAC

And that through here: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=wikileaks&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=nws:1&sa=N&tab=wn&fp=caec63d5ff72707a

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