U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary: Our Enemies Are Pouring Over the WikiLeaks Materials To Strike Our Military

As you've noticed, probably, I've been a bit silent on the WikiLeaks affair but now, with the newest release of nearly 400,000 new documents and the admission by our Defense department that our enemies have already admitted mining data from the reports to use against our troops in the field, I can be silent no more.

First things first....let's look at the report from Breitbart:

U.S. enemies already are combing through data released last week in a trove of Iraq war documents for ways to harm the American military, the Pentagon's No. 2 official said Tuesday.
U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn called the documents "stolen material" and said they give adversaries key insight on how the U.S. military operates. He did not say which groups, or how the Pentagon knew they were researching the documents.

"There are groups out there that have said they are indeed mining this data to turn around and use against us," Lynn told a small group of reporters during a brief visit to Baghdad. "We think this is problematic."

The Pentagon furiously opposed the documents' release Saturday by the whistle-blower WikiLeaks website. Lynn's remarks came a day after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told CNN that the nearly 400,000 papers did not put troops at risk because the names of any soldiers or Iraqi civilians have been redacted.

At the center of the WikiLeaks controversy is a former intelligence analyst, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is under suspicion of having provided the classified military documents to the whistle-blower website. Manning was stationed in Iraq when he was arrested by U.S. authorities last May. He is charged with multiple counts of mishandling classified data and putting national security at risk.

Okay, you see the two name above that I highlighted: Julian Assange (who owns WikiLeaks) and Bradley Manning (the U.S. soldier suspected of the leak). Now, as I read the article today, all I could envision was a group of 20 to 30 Taliban commanders in southern Afghanistan going over this information - making note of how our soldiers and Marines react to a sniping or to an IED attack, and as they determine the operating strategy and response by our troops, they make notes of their adjustments that will lead to them being able to kill more U.S. troops under those conditions.

And I see red. Violent red.

The first order of business is Bradley Manning. There is no option for this traitor's fate other than for him to face public execution in the public square. There can be no doubt, after this incident, that any soldier or any citizen of the U.S. who puts our troops on the battlefield in this kind of risk is going to be executed in this manner. Brutally and finally. I want this mother fucker to swing from the gallows...I want his family to see it, I want his supporters to see it, I want the world to see it.

The second order of business is Julian Assange. Now, this scumbag is not a citizen of America so I would prefer that this man deal with more punishment before his death sentence. I envision a small room, with concrete floors and walls and nothing else in the room...except for a handfull of U.S. Marines and soldiers. We'll give them a couple of hours...."alone."

Julian Assange is an enemy of America. He has willingly contributed now to the death of American troops...both at the present and in the future. I ask you...how would you feel if your son or daughter in the Army were to be killed in the next three months and it was discovered that the very reason for his death was because of the intel that the Taliban or al Qaeda received from the WikiLeaks leak? Vengeance will be ours, Mr. Assange. You're gonna wish you never heard of the United States of America.

US: Enemies searching WikiLeaks Iraq papers


BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. enemies already are combing through data released last week in a trove of Iraq war documents for ways to harm the American military, the Pentagon's No. 2 official said Tuesday.
U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn called the documents "stolen material" and said they give adversaries key insight on how the U.S. military operates. He did not say which groups, or how the Pentagon knew they were researching the documents.

"There are groups out there that have said they are indeed mining this data to turn around and use against us," Lynn told a small group of reporters during a brief visit to Baghdad. "We think this is problematic."

The Pentagon furiously opposed the documents' release Saturday by the whistle-blower WikiLeaks website. Lynn's remarks came a day after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told CNN that the nearly 400,000 papers did not put troops at risk because the names of any soldiers or Iraqi civilians have been redacted.

The U.S. has said that the WikiLeaks release of secret Afghan and Iraq war documents threatens national security.

WikiLeaks posted about 77,000 Afghanistan war logs on its site in July, and the Pentagon concluded that no U.S. intelligence sources or practices were compromised by the posting. A few weeks later, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he was not yet aware of any Afghan people who were killed as the result of the leak, "but I put emphasis on the word 'yet.'"

Lynn said the leaked information would not change the way the estimated 50,000 U.S. troops in Iraq operate. But he said he is mulling ways to keep more documents from leaking in the future, such as having computer systems monitor for irregular data searches.

"It does seem like commonsense, and I don't think we're doing enough of it, frankly," Lynn said.

In Washington, Pentagon spokesman Marine Col. David Lapan said WikiLeaks may have even more classified material than U.S. officials previously believed. He declined to characterize it, but WikiLeaks already has posted half a million secret Iraq and Afghanistan war files since July.

The group is also believed to have another 15,000 Afghan war field reports, 260,000 diplomatic cables and U.S. video of casualties in Afghanistan.

At the center of the WikiLeaks controversy is a former intelligence analyst, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is under suspicion of having provided the classified military documents to the whistle-blower website. Manning was stationed in Iraq when he was arrested by U.S. authorities last May. He is charged with multiple counts of mishandling classified data and putting national security at risk.

Meanwhile, the United Nations' top human rights official called the U.S. and Iraq to investigate allegations of detainee abuse contained in the newest WikiLeaks' war logs. The document cache contained reports of severe abuse by Iraqi forces, and showed that U.S. troops did not intervene to halt the violence in many cases.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said the information adds to "concerns that serious breaches of international human rights law have occurred in Iraq."

Pillay said that the U.S. and Iraq should prosecute anyone believed responsible for torture, unlawful killings and other abuses.

The documents show that U.S. forces turned detainees over to Iraqi forces even after signs of abuse.