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July 26, 2010

'Biggest Intel Leak in U.S. History'

Nearly 100,000 military documents spanning six years of the war in Afghanistan were made public Sunday, in what is being touted as the "biggest leak in intelligence history."

 

Called "The War Logs," the massive database of leaked military intelligence was put online on Sunday evening by whistleblower website WikiLeaks in conjunction with Britain's The Guardian, the New York Times, and Germany's Der Spiegel newspaper.

 

The three major media outlets were given access to the logs several weeks ago to review and verify their authenticity.

 

The data is overwhelming - 92,201 internal records - and serves to offer a glimpse into the day-to-day struggles, challenges, frustrations and failures of a military on the ground fighting a slippery and violent insurgency.

 

A mountain of information, the documents reveal that hundreds of civilian casualties have gone unreported.

 

They also suggest that Pakistan has been aiding the insurgency, allowing its spies to meet and strategize with Taliban leaders, even plotting together to assassinate Afghan leaders.

 

While those who have reviewed the documents report that they do not explicitly contradict official accounts of the war, the picture that emerges is "in many respects more grim than the official portrayal," the Times reports.

 

The documents, which were largely classified as "secret" when they were written, are for the most part "no longer military sensitive," according to the Guardian. Read more...

 

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