Wikileaks presents a threat to the U.S. Army and publishes potentially actionable information for targeting military personnel, according to a classified intelligence report posted Monday on the whistleblowing site.
The 32-page report entitled Wikileaks.org An Online Reference to Foreign Intelligence Services, Insurgents, or Terrorist Groups? (.pdf) indicates the governments concern that current employees or moles within the Defense Department or the U.S. government are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks. To stop this, the 2008 report had suggested a campaign to expose and punish those who leak to the site, which was founded in 2007 by Chinese dissidents, journalists and mathematicians.
Wikileaks.org uses trust as a center of gravity by assuring insiders, leakers, and whistleblowers who pass information to Wikileaks.org personnel or who post information to the website that they will remain anonymous, according to the report. The identification, exposure, or termination of employment of or legal actions against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistleblowers could damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others from using Wikileaks.org to make such information public.
The document is classified Secret, and was produced by the Army Counterintelligence Center, under the Department of Defense Intelligence Analysis Program. It appears to underscore the military's alarm that Wikileaks might be used to reveal United States military secrets, or broadcast disinformation harmful to the U.S.
The 32-page report entitled Wikileaks.org An Online Reference to Foreign Intelligence Services, Insurgents, or Terrorist Groups? (.pdf) indicates the governments concern that current employees or moles within the Defense Department or the U.S. government are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks. To stop this, the 2008 report had suggested a campaign to expose and punish those who leak to the site, which was founded in 2007 by Chinese dissidents, journalists and mathematicians.
Wikileaks.org uses trust as a center of gravity by assuring insiders, leakers, and whistleblowers who pass information to Wikileaks.org personnel or who post information to the website that they will remain anonymous, according to the report. The identification, exposure, or termination of employment of or legal actions against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistleblowers could damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others from using Wikileaks.org to make such information public.
The document is classified Secret, and was produced by the Army Counterintelligence Center, under the Department of Defense Intelligence Analysis Program. It appears to underscore the military's alarm that Wikileaks might be used to reveal United States military secrets, or broadcast disinformation harmful to the U.S.
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