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Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents

Posted by Soulskill on from the mail-in-your-hard-drives-everyone dept.

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.

13 of 523 comments (clear)

  1. The return of the documents... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Couldn't they just download it?

    1. Re:The return of the documents... by Manfre · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    2. Re:The return of the documents... by bug1 · · Score: 5, Funny

      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

  2. Re:They will make them comply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  3. Pentagons reaction by TyFoN · · Score: 5, Funny

    OMG DELETE THE INTERNET!

    1. Re:Pentagons reaction by InShadows · · Score: 4, Funny

      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!"

  4. Perhaps if pentagon had guns or something by line-bundle · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

  5. No problem! by blind+biker · · Score: 3, Funny

    They'll be soon available as a free download.

    --
    "The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
  6. DMCA takedown notice? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  7. Re:I see a little problem here by PincushionMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  8. Re:At first I thought Wikileaks was doing good by morari · · Score: 3, Funny

    And he likes long, moonlit walks on the beach.

    --
    "He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
  9. Re:They will make them comply by lgw · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

    --
    Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
  10. Re:They will make them comply by rwa2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oops, that slipped out...