Politics & Current Affairs — June 12, 2010

How to Plug a Leak

The Pentagon is on the lookout for 260,000 classified U.S. embassy messages that have allegedly been given to WikiLeaks by a former American intelligence analyst in Iraq.

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The Pentagon is on the lookout for 260,000 classified U.S. embassy messages that have allegedly been given to WikiLeaks by a former American intelligence analyst in Iraq. “Pentagon and State Department officials are desperately trying to discover whether Bradley Manning, a US army intelligence officer currently under arrest in Kuwait, has leaked highly sensitive embassy cables to Wikileaks.org, an online community of some 800 volunteer cyber experts, activists, journalists and lawyers which has become a thorn in the side of governments and corrupt corporations across the globe.” According to The Independent, “Reports in the US say officials are seeking to apprehend Julian Assange, the website’s founder who has pioneered the release of the kind of information the mainstream media are either unwilling or unable to publish.”

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