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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.

3 of 523 comments (clear)

  1. LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just lol.

  2. A note to Geoff Morrell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dear Mr High Lord Defense Department spokesman Geoff Morrell, Commander of the Good, Christian, Heterosexual Army of the United states.

    If you have got nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.
    If you have got something to hide, we will dig it out and publish it on the nets so your own people can see how rotten you are.

    Signed:
    Your cyberpunk future.

  3. Re:If the US really *were* evil, they'd die by LoverOfJoy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wolf men don't have nards.