[div class="excerpt"Wikileaks: damage is done say human rights group


By Kris Jepson

Updated on 29 July 2010
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Thousands of Afghans have downloaded the Wikileaks document the Afghanistan Human Rights Commissioner tells Channel 4 News, raising fears over informants' safety where personal details may be revealed.

In a newspaper article Jullian Assange insisted that the release of the Afghan war logs on his website is justified. Mr Assange claims that many informers were "acting in a criminal way" by sharing false information with Nato authorities, that the White House did nothing to help Wikileaks vet the documents despite being asked and that the risk to informants' lives was outweighed by the overall importance of publishing information.


But Ahmad Nader Nadery, the Commissioner of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) told Channel 4 News the damage is already done, because thousands of Afghans have already downloaded the files.

He said: "Release of names of the tribal elders and community members who met US, ISAF or NATO forces is an absolute irresponsibility. There is no protection mechanisms for these people, be it informant or other community members who as part of the role as an elder meets with the officials or international forces, while wikileaks served greatly in brining to public some of the unspoken files, it certainly also acted against the principle of “Do No Harm” that all civil society and watchdogs have to adhere to."


http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/wikileaks+damage+already+done+says+human+rights+group/3727677.html


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And that none of the names were redacted before being released, is this true?

see my post below where Amnesty International critiqued Assange for this move.

which I lean towards believing.
Thanks for the document, I need to learn much more about this case.

poor foolish kid.

They didn't want to get people killed, like Amnesty International warned---

... fuck everyone else.

I see the posters are accepting this book, WikiLeaks: Inside Assange's War on Secrecy, published by the Guardian, as the gospel truth. Odd.

Who wrote this book?

"The 304-page title has been written by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who was the co-founder of the whistle-blowing which started in 2006.
An advanced copy of the publicity blurb said: 'The fact that a project this powerful is under the sole control of someone with Julian Assange’s personality structure is a tangible danger to informants and collaborators.
‘Our trust was abused, we were threatened, misled and intentionally kept in the dark. It is not for nothing that many who have quit refer to him as a “dictator” . . .
‘Justified, even internal, criticism – whether about his relations with women or the lack of transparency in his actions – is either dismissed with the statement, “I’m busy, there are two wars I have to end” or attributed to the secret services’ smear campaigns.’
Domscheit-Berg has set up his own website OpenLeaks which is supposed to be more transparent."

the Guardian piece is basically a personal attack on Assange, going from one schoolyard level smear to another, and entirely relying on the words of Domscheit-Berg. No vetting, and this is a giveaway for a smear piece.

is about the statement the Manning made in association with his offer to plead guilty and serve up to 20 years

The Guardian article in the OP, far from being "basically a personal attack on Assange, going from one schoolyard level smear to another," that you claim it is, mentions Assange only once: