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WikiLeaks full public release on its website of 400,000 classified military documents from Iraq war operations is shameful, the Pentagon press secretary said tonight.
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'This is an extraordinary disservice to America's men and women in uniform,' Geoff Morrell said.
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More than 150,000 forces in Iraq and Afghanistan are already in considerable danger, he said. 'That danger is now exponentially multiplied as a result of this leak because it gives our enemies the wherewithal to look for vulnerabilities in how we operate and to exploit those opportunities and potentially kill our forces. That is just shameful.'
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'Potentially what one could mine from a huge data base like this are vulnerabilities in terms of how we operate, our tactics, our techniques, our procedures, the capabilities of our equipment, how we respond in combat situations, response times -- indeed how we cultivate sources,' Morrell said. 'All of that, [given the] thinking and adaptive enemy we've been facing in Iraq and Afghanistan, can be used against us.'
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U.S. intelligence reports and Taliban public statements indicate that enemy forces have been mining the released Afghan data base for operational vulnerabilities, Morrell said. |
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Geoff Morrell |
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Press Secretary |
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Pentagon, Department of Defense |
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A DOD task force has been combing through the Iraq data base to assess the damage that the WikiLeaks publication of the activity reports could pose to the U.S. military, Iraqi allies and on-going operations. |
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Jim Garamone |
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American Forces Press Service |
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