Wikileaks releases classified Afghanistan war logs: "largest intelligence leak in history"
Lots of early links on this one…
An archive of classified U.S. military logs spanning six years, more than 91,000 documents, and 200,000 pages, was today made available by WikiLeaks. The papers show a picture of the war in Afghanistan that is far more grim, and far less hopeful, than previously portrayed.
Some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records posted online Sunday amount to a blow-by-blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures.
Link: Leaks provide ground-level account of Afghan war – Washington Post
The At War blog will be providing coverage of the reaction to the release of an archive of classified military documents described below that paints a grim portrait of the war in Afghanistan. The New York Times had access to the documents and published a series of reports that are gathered here.
Link: The War Logs: Reaction to Disclosure of Military Documents on Afghan War – At War Blog – NYTimes.com
Turns out “Collateral Murder” was just a warm-up. WikiLeaks just published a trove of over 90,000 mostly-classified U.S. military documents that details a strengthening Afghan insurgency with deep ties to Pakistani intelligence.
Link: WikiLeaks Drops 90,000 Secret War Docs; Fingers Pakistan as Insurgent Ally | Danger Room | Wired.com