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Access to Information: "The War Logs: An Archive of Classified Military Documents offers an Unvarnished View of the War in Afghanistan"

July 26, 2010 00:02

From NY Times:

The documents — some 92,000 individual reports in all — were made available to The Times and the European news organizations by WikiLeaks, an organization devoted to exposing secrets of all kinds, on the condition that the papers not report on the data until July 25, when WikiLeaks said it intended to post the material on the Internet. WikiLeaks did not reveal where it obtained the material. WikiLeaks was not involved in the news organizations’ research, reporting, analysis and writing. The Times spent about a month mining the data for disclosures and patterns, verifying and cross-checking with other information sources, and preparing the articles that are published today. The three news organizations agreed to publish their articles simultaneously, but each prepared its own articles.

From Boing Boing: "Wikileaks releases classified Afghanistan war logs: 'largest intelligence leak in history'"

From Venture Beat: "WikiLeaks.org’s post of classified Afghan reports causes a furor"

From NY Times: "In Disclosing Secret Documents, WikiLeaks Seeks ‘Transparency"


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