The Pentagon is demanding that online whistle-blower WikiLeaks return its trove of tens of thousands of leaked U.S. government documents and delete th

Pentagon demands return of leaked documents

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is demanding that online whistle-blower WikiLeaks return its trove of tens of thousands of leaked U.S. government documents and delete them from its website and records.

Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell didn't say what efforts the Defense Department might be able to take to compel Wikileaks to comply. He told a Pentagon press conference that, at this point, the Pentagon is asking Wikileaks "to do the right thing."

Wikileaks posted nearly 77,000 classified military and other documents, mostly raw intelligence reports from Afghanistan, on its website July 25.


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Pentagon Demands WikiLeaks Return Unseen Afghan War Docs


The Pentagon wants Wikileaks to return the more than 15,000 documents it has but has not yet published, spokesman Geoff Morrell said Thursday.



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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon is demanding that online whistle-blower WikiLeaks turn over its trove of tens of thousands of leaked U.S. government documents and delete them from its website and records.


He said the Wikileaks' Web page "constitutes a brazen solicitation to U.S. government officials, including our military, to break the law" and that "Wikileaks' assertion that submitting confidential material to Wikileaks is safe, easy and protected by law is materially false and misleading."

So, he said, the Pentagon also "demands that Wikileaks discontinue any solicitation of this type."

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