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Military releases some documents in Manning case
February 27, 2013 9:16 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) - The military has released some court documents in the case of an Army private accused of giving classified material to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. The 84 documents released Wednesday include rulings that were read aloud in court and routine court orders. The Department of Defense says more... more » -
Pretrial for Pft. Bradley Manning starts in Wikileaks trial
December 19, 2011 6:03 AM
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) - The pretrial hearing of an Army private accused of spilling U.S. secrets is resuming Monday after some potentially damaging testimony for the defendant. Late Sunday, investigator David Shaver testified that he found more than 10,000 diplomatic cables and other sensitive information on one computer... more » -
Manning's status as gay soldier key to intel leak defense
December 18, 2011 10:41 AM
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) - Lawyers for the Army private charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history say he was influenced by his struggles with being a gay soldier. The military hearing continued Sunday to determine whether Pfc. Bradley Manning will stand trial at a... more » -
U.S. State Department documents exposed in WikiLeaks breach
August 31, 2011 8:49 PM
LONDON (AP) - Anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks says that its massive archive of unredacted U.S. State Department cables has been exposed in a security breach. The files now appear to be circulating freely around the Web, and WikiLeaks is blaming a British newspaper. In a 1,600-word-long editorial posted to... more » -
Wikileaks says site is under attack
August 30, 2011 10:16 PM
LONDON (AP) -The Wikileaks website, which contains thousands of U.S. embassy cables, has crashed in an apparent cyberattack. The anti-secrecy organization said in a Twitter message Tuesday that Wikileaks.org "is presently under attack." Efforts to view the Wikileaks site and view links to cables were unsuccessful. The... more » -
Russia's Medvedev: WikiLeaks won't harm ties with US
December 24, 2010 10:55 AM
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says that revelations from confidential U.S. cables released by the WikiLeaks will not harm Moscow's relations with Washington. Medvedev said in a live interview with state television stations Friday that he and other Russian leaders were long aware of the opinions expressed... more » -
Norwegian paper says it has all WikiLeaks cables
December 23, 2010 10:25 AM
OSLO, Norway (AP) A Norwegian newspaper says it has obtained the entire trove of 250,000 uncensored U.S. diplomatic documents that WikiLeaks has been distributing. The announcement Thursday appears to make Aftenposten the first media organization outside WikiLeaks' five partners to obtain the material a development sure to heighten U.S.... more » -
McConnell: WikiLeaks chief 'a high-tech terrorist'
December 5, 2010 11:36 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is calling the founder of the online site WikiLeaks a "high-tech terrorist" for releasing classified material from the U.S. government. McConnell says that the online release of secret diplomat exchanges has done "enormous damage" to the country and to its relationship... more » -
Pentagon demands website stop posting classified military documents
August 6, 2010 8:12 AM
A website that solicits leaked government secrets hasn't replied to calls and e-mails seeking comment on the Pentagon's demand that it cancel any plan to publish more classified military documents. The Defense Department also told the website WikiLeaks to pull back tens of thousands of secret Afghan war longs already... more » -
Pentagon looks at damage from Afghan War leaks
July 26, 2010 12:39 PM
The Defense Department is conducting a damage assessment on the leak of some 91,000 classified documents on the Afghanistan war. Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan told reporters Monday the review could take "days, if not weeks" because the military has yet to see all of the leaked reports. ... more »
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