Isikoff: Pentagon review finds national security not endangered by WikiLeaks documents

from Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/7/27/887970/-Isikoff:-Pentagon-review-finds-national-security-not-endangered-by-WikiLeaks-documents

Jul 27, 2010 at 08:00:04 AM PDT

Despite the statement of national security adviser James Jones condemning the release of more than 92,000 classified documents as endangering national security, Michael Isikoff reports that a review by the Pentagon finds, so far, that's not the case: (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38417666/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia)


WASHINGTON, D.C. — An ongoing Pentagon review of the massive flood of secret documents made public by the WikiLeaks website has so far found no evidence that the disclosure harmed U.S. national security or endangered American troops in the field, a Pentagon official told NBC News on Monday.

The initial Pentagon assessment is far less dramatic than initial statements from the Obama White House Sunday night after three major news organizations – The New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel — published what was touted as an unprecedented “secret archive” of classified military documents relating to the war in Afghanistan. The documents appear to show, among other matters, close collaboration between elements of the Pakistani intelligence service and the Taliban — an awkward issue that U.S. intelligence officials have strenuously complained about for some time but are loath to talk about publicly....

But David Lapan, deputy assistant secretary of defense for media operations, told NBC News on Monday that a preliminary review by a Pentagon “assessment” team has so far not identified any documents whose release could damage national security. Moreover, he said, none of the documents reviewed so far carries a classification level above “secret” — the lowest category of intelligence material in terms of sensitivity.

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"it breaks the law and equally importantly it compromises the efforts of our troops in the field, potentially."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8824434

. . . and they're pressed to find something in there which makes their paranoid, hawkish case against the documents. Kerry would be better off opening his Foreign Relations Committee to investigate the claims he says are exaggerations (and the others) and let the public decide, rather than dig himself in with a deeper defense of the clusterfuck there. He has a great deal of political stock invested in the Pakistan end of the enterprise, so I expect he'll follow this defense with more nonsense about 'progress' and such to avoid having the plug pulled on all of the funding he's pushed through for Pakistan.

:)

But I suppose everyone changes over the course of many decades.

info is at todays press conference.