WHITE HOUSE The IGNORED THE WARNINGS FROM THE WIKILEAKS

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(Title) The founder of Wikileaks, Julianne Assad accused the White House did not address the request for assistance addressed to it in order to protect people who might jeopardize the publication of secret military documents about the war in Afghanistan, in an interview published today in the British newspaper The Times. The Pentagon has strongly condemned the publication of Sunday 92.000 thousand documents on the war in Afghanistan, whereas including endangering the lives of Afghan informants and threatens to undermine the work of secret services in this country, while his part, Afghan President Hamid Karzai at a press conference in Kabul, described the publication of the documents “highly irresponsible and shocking. It lives and their lives are in danger”.

Julian Assad, however, revealed to British newspaper that he had asked the White House last week to help “minimize the chances to uncover the names of informants, but never received any reply.
The founder of Wikileaks has assured that the letters were read before publication, and what might led to the identification of names of informants from third parties, not published.
Any document “endanger innocent people” was included in the 15 000 documents that Wikileaks has in its possession, but decided not to publish, has told Assad.
But it was clear: “I deeply regret if it caused problems for some. But if we were forced to choose whether to publish all or nothing, we will publish all the documents, it is extremely important in the history of warfare “.

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29-7-2010

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