Pentagon scrambles to assess Wikileaks damage

[BootinUp]

Source: AP/Yahoo

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon said Monday it was trying to assess the damage caused by the leak of some 91,000 classified documents on the Afghanistan war.

The documents are described as battlefield reports compiled by various military units that provide an unvarnished look at combat in the past six years, including U.S. frustration over reports Pakistan secretly aided insurgents and civilian casualties at the hand of U.S. troops.

Wikileaks.org, a self-described whistleblower organization, posted 76,000 of the reports to its website Sunday night. The group said it is vetting another 15,000 documents for future release.

Col. Dave Lapan, a Defense Department spokesman, said the military would probably need "days, if not weeks" to review all the documents and determine "the potential damage to the lives of our service members and coalition partners."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100726/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_afghanistan_wikileaks

[DJ13]

1. They should pull completely out of the region to do a true assesment

[OKDem08]

2. ahh...the typical narrative

they're about as credible as BP

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. How about assessing the damage of 10 god damn years of that nonsense?

A war so utterly fucked up that they have to keep everything that happens there bottled up & "confidential".

[SoapBox]

4. Damn it...we hate it when TRUTH is reveled!

...dark shadowy people, love dark shadowy secrets...