Pentagon demands return of leaked documents

[unhappycamper]

Pentagon demands return of leaked documents
By Anne Gearan - The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Aug 5, 2010 21:32:16 EDT

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon demanded Thursday that a website that solicits leaked government secrets cancel any plan to publish more classified military documents and pull back tens of thousands of secret Afghan war logs already posted on the Internet.

The demand, which the Pentagon has no independent power to enforce, is primarily aimed at preventing release of approximately 15,000 secret documents that the website WikiLeaks has said it is holding. The Pentagon also hopes to stop WikiLeaks from making public the contents of a mammoth encrypted file recently added to the site. Contents of that file remain a mystery.

“We are asking them to do the right thing,” Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said. “I don’t know that we’re very confident they’ll have a change of heart.”

WikiLeaks did not immediately reply to calls and e-mails seeking comment on the Pentagon’s demand, although on its Twitter feed the group seemed dismissive, calling Morrell “obnoxious” and saying his demand was tantamount to a “formal threat.”

WikiLeaks posted more than 76,900 classified military and other documents, mostly raw intelligence reports from Afghanistan, on its website July 25. The 15,000 additional documents are apparently related to that material.

[Cassandra]

1. I'd like the Pentagon to do the right thing...

and return the trillions in taxpayer money they've pissed away over the years. I don't think I'm ver confident they'll have a change of heart, either.

[Poboy]

4. yes, I 'demand' to know where the missing TRILLIONS are! -nt

[HipChick]

2. Good luck with that...once something is in public domain

say bye-bye

[msongs]

3. how bout returning the lives of 10's of thousands of murdred woman and kids eh? nt