Intel sources exposed ?

Les ratés de WikiLeaks. Granice szpiegowskich tajemnic. Top U.S. Officer: WikiLeaks Might Have ‘Blood on Its Hands’ As Pentagon leaders go, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm.

Mike Mullen are fairly mild-mannered — prone to quiet, careful assessments, not table-pounding bluster. But they could barely contain their anger on Thursday at WikiLeaks for publishing tens of thousands of secret documents about the Afghanistan war. Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went so far as to say that the transparency activists “might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier” or an Afghan partner during a Pentagon press briefing, his voice elevating slightly. Neither Mullen nor Gates considered the documents WikiLeaks obtained to have strategic value or even particular utility to understanding the war.

But that didn’t diminish their anger at WikiLeaks’s huge disclosure on Sunday, which they described as having consequences on the battlefield and beyond. Photo: Joint Chiefs See Also: U.S. Military Scrutinizes Leaks for Risks to Afghans. Taliban Study WikiLeaks to Hunt Informants - The Lede Blog. Updated | 12:36 p.m.

A spokesman for the Taliban told Britain’s Channel 4 News on Thursday that the insurgent group is scouring classified American military documents posted online by the group WikiLeaks for information to help them find and “punish” Afghan informers. Speaking by telephone from an undisclosed location, Zabihullah Mujahid, who frequently contacts news organizations, including The Times on behalf of the Taliban, said, “We are studying the report.” He added: We knew about the spies and people who collaborate with U.S. forces. We will investigate through our own secret service whether the people mentioned are really spies working for the U.S. Channel 4 News also reported that the spokesman said that the Taliban “had come to know of the leaked secret documents through media reports.” As my colleagues Eric Schmitt and Charlie Savage reported on Wednesday: Mr. In a response read to CNN, Mr.

Wikileaks se défend d'avoir mis en danger des informateurs. Wikileaks a fait fuiter des noms d'informateurs afghans. WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Wants Pentagon to Help. While the church got headlines for dropping its much-mocked ‘Mormons get their own planets’ doctrine, it quietly reaffirmed a far more important, and more radical, tenet of the faith.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently backpedaled on a key tenet of Mormon theology: that after death, righteous Mormons will become gods, with the capacity to create planets of their own. But while press coverage of the walk-back has focused on the “Mormons get their own planets” doctrine, already ridiculed on Broadway and TV, what’s remarkable is what the LDS church left in.

Indeed, the church doubled down on the core Mormon teaching that God had a physical/human body, and that, in turn, we will have spiritual/divine ones. In other words, that we are just like God and will later be “exalted” to God’s divine state. This despite a half-century of attempting to become more and more Christian, and less and less weird. But unlike Scientology, Mormonism also has a hit musical to contend with.

WikiLeaks Didn'’t Blow U.S.’ Afghan Intel Sources [Updated] We’re still waiting for WikiLeaks to reveal hundreds of thousands of U.S. military documents on the Iraq war.1 But if the past is any prologue, the impact of the leak might be less severe than the military fears.

Its last big military document dump didn’t botch the U.S.’s intelligence sources in Afghanistan, according to Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Gates wrote to Carl Levin, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, that a preliminary Pentagon review “has not revealed any sensitive intelligence sources and methods compromised” by WikiLeaks’ July release of 77,000 “tactical” military reports from Afghanistan. Gates penned his August 16 letter a few weeks after Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, accused the anti-secrecy organization of endangering the lives of U.S. troops and the Afghan civilians who work with them. Much as we’re hitting refresh in anticipation of the Iraq release, WikiLeaks’ website is still down. Check out Gates’ letter below.