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Pentagon Papers’ Ellsberg weighs in on WikiLeaks Story

Submitted by LWS on Wed, 2010-07-28 07:11. Afghanistan | US News

John Nichols, Capital Times associate editor
The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
July 27, 2010

The Obama White House was quick to condemn the publication Sunday evening of more than 91,000 secret documents detailing the monumentally misguided and frequently failed attempt by the United States to occupy Afghanistan.

National Security Adviser James Jones took the lead in attacking the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks for making the details of the war available to the American people -- who are, ultimately, supposed to define the direction of U.S. foreign policy -- by declaring: “The United States strongly condemns the disclosure of classified information by individuals and organizations which could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk, and threaten our national security.”

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