Army attacks…Wikileaks?
US Army considered attack on Wikileaks
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 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.
“The leaked report could also provide foreign governments, terrorists, and insurgents with insight into successful asymmetric warfare tactics, techniques, and procedures that could be used when engaging US or Coalition forces,” they wrote.</em>
To use an infuriatingly stupid phrase lobbed at those who object to invasive searches since time began, if you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?
For example, that 2004 assault on Fallujah? The one where we demolished all the hospitals first, and then sealed the city and had a turkey shoot of all young males? Gee, who would want to hide details of that particular war crime?
