US military denies Wikileaks talks

[Turborama]

Source: Al Jazeera English

UPDATED ON:
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 | 19:56 GMT -

The US military has denied having direct contact with whistle-blower website Wikileaks ahead of the expected release of about 15,000 leaked documents on the war in Afghanistan.

Responding to claims by Julian Assange, Wikileaks' founder, that military lawyers had been in touch with the group, the Pentagon said on Wednesday that it was not interested in helping to review the classified documents.

"We are not interested in negotiating some sort of minimised or sanitised version of classified documents," Bryan Whitman, a spokesman for the Pentagon, said.

"These documents are property of the United States government. The unauthorised release of them threatens the lives of coalition forces as well as Afghan nationals."

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/08/201081817315332737.html

[Downwinder]

1. All work products of the Government are public domain, there is no Copyright or ownership available.

[Pavulon]

2. Bullshit. The list of witness protection members or the plans for the w88

are secured for a reason.

[Downwinder]

3. There is a difference between secured and ownership.

[Pavulon]

4. Well the guy who dumped the data will be secure for 60 years

at Florence supermax. Who takes ownership of his corpse will be determined later.

[Downwinder]

5. And anyone who participated in an atrocity will have to worry until the seventh generation.

[Pavulon]

6. 1/3 through, nothing that comes close to a criminal act(nt)

[Downwinder]

7. Read your text on biblical tribal societies. n/t

[Turborama]

8. What on earth are you two talking about? n/t

[Downwinder]

9. Sociology n/t

[Nihil]

11. (It's even weirder to follow when you've forgotten that one party is on ignore ...) (n/t)

:yoiks:

[tavalon]

10. Why is it secret then?

[Pavulon]

12. The same reason that the list of paid informants for the FBI is secret

because if it was public some one might get their brains blown out.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

13. "Instead, we've decided to go the rape route," said a Pentagon spokesperson.

:tinfoilhat: