Newsweek reports that Wikileaks will soon publish
what is believed to be an extremely large cache of war documents,
constituting the biggest military leak of all time. The exact number of
documents and the nature of their contents have not been revealed, but
the material may include what imprisoned Army intelligence analyst
Bradley Manning is believed to have passed along to WikiLeaks earlier
this year. From the
Newsweek article:
A London-based journalism nonprofit is working with the WikiLeaks
Web site and TV and print media in several countries on programs and
stories based on what is described as massive cache of classified U.S.
military field reports related to the Iraq War. Iain Overton, editor of
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
tells Declassified that his organization has teamed up with media
organizations--including major television networks and one or more
American media outlets--in an unspecified number of countries to
produce a set of documentaries and stories based on the cache of Iraq
War documents in the possession of WikiLeaks. As happened with a
similar WikiLeaks collection of tens of thousands of U.S. military
field reports on the Afghan war, the unidentified media organizations
involved with the London group in the Iraq documents project will all
be releasing their stories on the same day, which Overton says would be
several weeks from now. He declined to identify any of the media
organizations participating in the project.
Through its Twitter account,
Wikileaks today issued a "no comment"
on reports that the documents were related to Iraq. The last large leak
publication by Wikileaks contained material related to the war in
Afghanistan.
Read the
full Newsweek piece here, and
Wired News has more.
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