War Documents "Could Potentially Endanger Our Operations and Forces in Afghanistan

It's great there are people trying to make wrong things right. It's wonderful that the media have paid attention to what has been going on in Afghanistan because no matter how many secrets were kept, the troops and the Afghans were in fact clued in. That said, no matter how important these reports are or how much the information needs to be investigated, the fact remains, this is about our troops. The Pentagon should have had the chance to say something would harm the troops over there if it was made public and let law enforcement do the rest with the reports that shouldn't have been made public. This was jumping the gun on releasing all of these papers. We really should be wondering if anyone actually sat and read every single page before they were all released.

July 27, 2010
Pentagon: "Very Robust" Probe of WikiLeak Source
Spokesman Says Release of War Documents "Could Potentially Endanger Our Operations and Forces in Afghanistan"

(CBS) The Pentagon has launched a "very robust investigation" into the source of the leak of more than 90,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan, the release of which a spokesman said "could endanger the lives of our forces and imperil our nation's security."

Appearing on CBS' "The Early Show" this morning, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said a probe into determining who leaked the documents to the website WikiLeaks, which published them on Sunday (in conjunction with The New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel) is in its early stages.

"Our focus really, frankly, is to try to determine if there is anything in these 90,000 pages of documents that could indeed endanger our forces; we've got a team doing that round the clock," Morrell told anchor Erica Hill. "This was dumped on us like it was dumped on you all Sunday night.

"It would have been nice had this organization had the decency to come to us and work with us to try to figure out if there's anything in here that could endanger our forces. We were not given that luxury," he said.

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Very Robust Probe of WikiLeak Source