BREAKING NEWS: NEW WIKILEAKS DOCS RELEASED
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NEW WIKILEAKS DOCS RELEASED -
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The Associated Press/Huffington Post reports:
"The New York Times and The Guardian have published classified State Department documents provided to them by the online website WikiLeaks. The WikiLeaks website appeared to be inaccessible, and WikiLeaks said in its Twitter feed that it was experiencing a denial of service attack.
"The State Department's top lawyer warned WikiLeak's founder, Julian Assange, late Saturday that lives and military operations would be put at risk if the cables were released. Legal adviser Harold Koh said WikiLeaks would be breaking the law if it went ahead and he also rejected a request from Assange to cooperate in removing sensitive details from the documents.
"Assange, in a response released Sunday by his London lawyer, said he had no intention of halting the release. He claimed the administration was trying to cover up alleged evidence of serious "human rights abuse and other criminal behavior" by the U.S. government
"The letter to the U.S. ambassador, Louis Sussman, also said WikiLeaks had no desire to harm either "individual persons' or 'the national security of the United States.' But he said the administration's refusal to cooperate showed that the risks were 'fanciful.'
"'I understand that the United States government would prefer not to have the information that will be published in the public domain and is not in favor of openness,' Assange wrote. 'That said, either there is a risk or there is not.'
"'You have chosen to respond in a manner which leads me to conclude that the supposed risks are entirely fanciful and you are instead concerned to suppress evidence of human rights abuse and other criminal behavior,' he said.
"'We will now proceed to release the material subject to our checks and the checks of our media partners unless you get back to me,' Assange wrote."
New Wikileaks documents released - what are your comments?
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