It's not often I refer to a leftist publication such as the Guardian (U.K.), but they were among the first to break a story that made the release of the Pentagon Papers look like a trickle. According to this article the mass leak consists of, "92,201 internal records of actions by the US military in Afghanistan between January 2004 and December 2009." A U.S. Soldier, Bradley Manning, aka Bradass87, has been arrested in this case.
The New York Times, one of the publications which received this mass shipment of classified documents, revealed that Pakistan's rogue military intelligence service has been supporting the Taliban behind the scenes. This must be the same duplicitous Pakistani ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) that the Government of India suspects planned and equipped the 2008 Mumbai massacre.
This flood of documents could well force the United States government to change much of its military and diplomatic policy.
If you are wondering what all the excitement is about, check out Wikileaks.
Sources as different from each other as Slate.com and Rightwing Nuthouse agree that this flood of classified documents should not be compared to the Pentagon Papers, but Rick Moran of Righwing Nuthouse writes, "As for the question of should the documents have been published? Of course not. Anyone who gave that anti-American nutcase Julian Assange - an Australian by birth - access to those documents should be arrested, tried, convicted, and sent to jail for a very long time. Untold damage is being done simply because no one knows what use of this information will be made by the enemy. What intelligence can they glean from its contents? Certainly the Taliban can figure out some of our weaknesses by reading through these documents. For that reason alone, Assange himself should be relentlessly pursued and arrested."
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