the way i see it is if it gets us out of afganistan its worth it we shouldnt be there at all. im sure theres about to be alot more info coming out soon and i cant wait. america is an evil country and needs to be stoped. and by that i dont mean the good people of the U.S. come on wikileaks do us proud.

Indeed a very serious mistake in my view. I understood from some news that the names were removed and documents reviewed to black out names.

I believe the authenticity is not in jeopardy when doing so and many lives are perhaps in danger because of this. I would think a part of the informers are idealists that truly believe they are doing good helping the "liberators".

Also there is the danger that names have been changed to target people through that.

Yeah. Afghanistan is mad. I thought of posting this separately but just included it in my thread this morning on Afghanistan's general ire at the information in the leaks.

They're covering this in the 'big leaks thread' too, if you're interested.

Why were the names of informants included in these documents in the first place, knowing they had the potential of being leaked or compromised?

Usually informants are given code names to protect their identity. Just another mistake in a war full of 'em.

i feel sorry for those people they will prolly end up dead or their families will

You know, this is a little too convienient.

The government wants to stop such leaks that exposes their mistakes and the like to put regulations on what we see on the net and how we gather information.

Suddenly wikileaks, after releasing collateral murder, releases something thats out of the ordinary for it. Some members were already speculating that it is out of character for wikileaks to have something that seems not so extraordinary or doesn't expose lies told and even that the government is behind it.

Could this be true? We are now about to witness the horrors of what will happen if the people knew everything the government was doing! This will cause people to shun wikileaks and ask for the government to do whatever to keep its secrets. This would also explain why the MSM is jumping to cover this materal (to regain their 'we are real journalists!' appearance) while they hesitated to cover the collateral murder video.

Not to mention that they probably used the hacker they had on their side (snitch hacker adrian lamo) after capturing him to try to legitimize the story. Remember chat logs can be faked. That so they have a reason to imprison the person that leaked the collateral murder video with support of the populous.

This whole thing could be a setup!

//edit to add

That would be why they were given no codename.

[edit on 28-7-2010 by EminenceofAeon]

I think that no code names were assigned because these were notes made by soldiers after they interviewed local villagers.

These interviews with village elders have been leaked along with other information.

I think that there was a serious error in judgment by the wikileaks founder and wonder if it is criminal.

I imagine that the Valerie Plame crowd will now go berserk,,,,
NOT!

This is 100% the fault of the U.S. Government, not Wikileaks.

We pay over $650 billion to the U.S. Defense Department every year to fight this war, and these fools can't even keep their intelligence files secured?

The only reason we know about this is because of Wikileaks. IMAGINE how many other files have "leaked" in SECRET to our enemies.

The kid who leaked this info did it FOR FREE, can you imagine how many employees of the U.S. Intelligence community are leaking information to Russia/China/Iran/etc., for big $$$?

The crime here is the US taxpayers getting ripped off by paying for a "state-of-the-art" military when all they get in return is a National Security apparatus with more holes in it than Swiss cheese.

[edit on 28-7-2010 by harrytuttle]

Originally posted by mordant1
I imagine that the Valerie Plame crowd will now go berserk,,,,
NOT!

Apples & Oranges kiddo.

Valerie Plame's cover was leaked by a top White House official in the Bush Administration.

This latest leak was performed by an Intelligence analyst inside the U.S. Military on general moral principle.

HUGE DIFFERENCE.

The Plame affair was a violation of National Security performed by the top of the Executive Branch as a political threat against people who challenged the Bush Administration.

The Wikileaks affair exposes the complete ineptitude of the U.S. Intelligence apparatus, and hence how the U.S. taxpayer is getting ripped off.

[edit on 28-7-2010 by harrytuttle]