Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents

Multiple news agencies are reporting that the Pentagon has demanded the return of WikiLeaks' collection of secret documents relating to the war in Afghanistan. Defense Department spokesman Geoff Morrell said, "The only acceptable course is for WikiLeaks to take steps immediately to return all versions of all of these documents to the US government and permanently delete them from its website, computers and records." According to the BBC, Morrell also "acknowledged the already-leaked documents' viral spread across the internet made it unlikely they could ever be quashed," but hopes to prevent the dissemination of a further 15,000 documents WikiLeaks is reportedly in the process of redacting. "We're looking to have a conversation about how to get these perilous documents off the website as soon as possible, return them to their rightful owners and expunge them from their records." WikiLeaks, predictably, shows no sign of cooperating.

Comments

The return of the documents...

[Anonymous Coward]

Couldn't they just download it?

Re:The return of the documents...

[Manfre]

http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html

Re:The return of the documents...

[Anonymous Coward]

NES: lol
NES: I download something from Napster
NES: And the same guy I downloaded it from starts downloading it from me when I'm done
NES: I message him and say "What are you doing? I just got that from you"
NES: "getting my song back fucker"

Courtesy of http://bash.org/?104052

Re:The return of the documents...

[bug1]

I think people are mis-reading their demand, what i think happened is that the pentagon lost their copy and they want someone to send them the backup.

"Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it" - Linus Torvalds

Re:They will make them comply

[Anonymous Coward]

Uh, if you think the US Military drives the decisions of the US Government, you are horribly mistaken. It's visibly the other way around. You have just cited an opinion piece from The Inquirer.

Pentagons reaction

[TyFoN]

OMG DELETE THE INTERNET!

Re:Pentagons reaction

[InShadows]

From the Pentagon press release an old adage similar to that of mother's across the world:
"I brought the Internet into this world, I can take it out!"

It's ok, no need for all the fuss

[zero.kalvin]

They will just mistakenly bomb them...

Perhaps if pentagon had guns or something

[line-bundle]

I guess if the Pentagon had guns or something perhaps they could have leverage.

But just having 5 sides and 5 angles? What do they expect to to the wikileaks? Poke it to death?

No problem!

[blind biker]

They'll be soon available as a free download.

DMCA takedown notice?

[Anonymous Coward]

[Rolls eyes] Can't they just file a DMCA takedown notice like everyone else?

Re:It's time

[Minwee]

What, and have everybody find out that it's a cookbook?

Re:They will make them comply

[Anonymous Coward]

I think I'm gonna go ahead and pin it on the guy that started it, if it's okay with you. Or even if it's not.

Osama Bin Laden?

If you're implying that W was essentially the puppet of OBL . . .

Re:At first I thought Wikileaks was doing good

[Grizzley9]

Fame whore? Without googling, off of the top of your head, what's the full name and correct spelling of the guy behind WikiLeaks? And what does he look like?

"What?"
[overturns the small table in the room] What country are you from?
"What?"
What ain't no country I ever heard of! They speak English in "What"?!
"What?"
English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?!
"Yes!"
Then you know what I'm saying.
[gasping] "Yes..."
Describe what the WikiLeaks founder looks like!
"What?"
[points gun directly in face] Say "what" again. Say "what" again! I dare you! I double-dare you, motherfucker! Say "what" one more goddamn time!
"He-he's black."
Go on! .....

Re:I see a little problem here

[PincushionMan]

THAT WAS ME! Over 10 years ago, on IRC. I can't tell you how much I love that that quote still pops up every now and then on the interwebz.

Dude, I wouldn't be bragging about trying to get your song back!

Re:At first I thought Wikileaks was doing good

[morari]

And he likes long, moonlit walks on the beach.

War?

[The AtomicPunk]

What is this "war" everyone is talking about? We elected the guy that represented the half of the establishment party that was against the war. Clearly it is over.

Re:I blame Bush for good reason.

[Scrameustache]

Bush KNEW this would be folly

Maybe he really -=believed=- that the Russians couldn't take Afghanistan because the US were arming and training the Taliban.

Or that Rambo did it, and James Bond helped...

Re:They will make them comply

[Anonymous Coward]

Wikipedia is your news source?

Hint Hint: find a credible news source.

they SHOULD return the documents, every one

[Anonymous Coward]

Wikileaks needs to immediately send an e-mail, attaching every single document, with the words "Here are your documents back. Thanks." :)

Re:They will make them comply

[lgw]

The international banking cartels drive the decisions of military contractors and government, they create the money for war and profit from it.

You're so right man. You know what else is scary? Clowns! Why do you think all three branches of government (four if you count the military) conspire to hide the clown threat? Why do you think congresscritters regularly act like clowns? The evidence speaks for itself.

Re:They will make them comply

[rwa2]

Oops, that slipped out...

Re:They will make them comply

[slick7]

It's the military contractors that drive the decisions of the US Government.

It's the military industrial penal private banking pharmaceutical petroleum drug cartel that drive the decisions of the US Government.