WikiLeaks is an international non-profit media organization that publishes submissions of otherwise unavailable documents from anonymous sources and leaks.
Its website, launched in 2006. Within a year of its launch, the site claimed a database that had grown to more than 1.2 million documents.
US soldier Bradley Manning, left, is accused of stealing the classified files and handing the database to the WikiLeaks website of Julian Assange, right.Bradley Manning, 23, enlisted in the US Army in 2007 and became an intelligence analyst in Iraq, sifting through classified information at Forward Operating Base Hammer, 40 miles east of Baghdad. For the last seven months, the U.S. Army soldier has been in solitary confinement. This came after he allegedly gave WikiLeaks their first bombshell they leaked earlier in 2010.
Julian Assange, the Australian who heads the secret-sharing Web site, told ABC News today he believes his safety and freedom are in danger. He responded to questions by email from a clandestine hideout. He was undaunted by vows from the U.S. and Australia to prosecute him and said the forthcoming diplomatic cables are aimed at "lying, corrupt and murderous leadership from Bahrain to Brazil."
Yesterday, the site released thousands of cables that exposed secret diplomatic communications. Although the government claimed that releasing them would put lives at risk, the site posted them and sent them to major newspapers.
Obama is the President and there is a site leaking state secrets and possibly jeopardizing American lives. Our government writes a polite letter to the man leaking the documents, Julian Assange.
Blog author's comments - Bradley Manning the person responsible for the theft of the documents has been in custody for months. He should never be released. Julian Assange who runs the Wikileaks site should be shut down and brought to trial.
I believe that most sane people would have serious questions about the Obama Administration's incompetence in the Wikileaks fiasco. The damage thus far has been done but how much more will it take for Obama and Holder to actually do something?
When will the leaders of the United States of America flex it's muscles and stop what is happening?
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