Buckle Your Seatbelts On The Next Wikileaks Release
enlarge As the charges against Julian Assange heat up , the anonymous folks of Wikileaks continue undaunted and promise another bombshell : Who: WikiLeaks. What: A Twitter message posted by the whistle-blowing website announced plans to release classified U.S. diplomatic cables reporting corruption allegations against foreign governments and leaders. WikiLeaks said the latest release will be seven times larger than the previous leak of classified Pentagon documents of roughly 400,000. U.S. State Department officials say the upcoming dump features corruption allegations and is set to cause serious embarrassment for American and foreign governments and politicians named in them. Where: It is not yet known where the classified documents would be released, however, the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, gave America’s New York Times, Britain’s Guardian newspaper and the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel – access to the documents some time ago. When: WikiLeaks has not specified when the tranche of documents would be released but Pentagon spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan said U.S. officials were expecting a possible release of documents ‘late this week or early next week’. As would be expected, the State Department has claimed that the leaks could cause irreparable harm and could put lives at risk . The latest leak is expected to include documents covering US dealings and diplomats’ confidential views of countries including Australia, Britain, Canada, Israel, Russia and Turkey. The letter from the US state department’s legal advisor Harold Koh was a response to correspondence from Mr Assange, who had written to the US ambassador to Britain, Louis Susman. Mr Assange had asked which individuals would be put at risk due to the leak, the State Department said. A senior American official told the BBC that Mr Assange was offering to negotiate over limited redactions. Of course, expect the government to go into overdrive in demonizing Assange even further in the hopes of deflecting the information.
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Buckle Your Seatbelts On The Next Wikileaks Release
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