{"id":46158,"date":"2019-05-16T06:54:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T11:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46158"},"modified":"2019-05-16T06:56:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T11:56:29","slug":"the-revelations-of-wikileaks-no-3-the-most-extensive-classified-leak-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46158","title":{"rendered":"The Revelations of WikiLeaks: No. 3\u2014The Most Extensive Classified Leak in History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Revelations of WikiLeaks: No. 3\u2014The Most Extensive Classified Leak in History<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cIraq War Logs\u201d disgorged an unprecedented profusion of documents, military reports and videos.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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F<\/strong>or WikiLeaks<\/em>, 2010 was an exceptionally eventful year. In April the transparency organization released \u201cCollateral Murder,\u201d<\/a> the video of U.S. Army helicopters as they shot more than a dozen Iraqis in Baghdad. That proved a worldwide shock and put the 4-year-old publisher on the global media map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfghan War Diaries,\u201d<\/a> a cache of 75,000 documents, followed in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three months later, on Oct. 22, 2010, WikiLeaks <\/em>released an even more explosive trove: 391,831 documents and videos it named \u201cIraq War Logs<\/a>.\u201d This superseded \u201cAfghan War Diaries\u201d as by far the most extensive leak of classified material in U.S. history. It shone a stark light on the U.S.\u2013led coalition\u2019s conduct in Iraq after its 2003 invasion, when the nation had erupted into a violent sectarian war. Julian Assange, WikiLeaks<\/em> founder, said<\/a> the Logs \u201cconstituted the most comprehensive and detailed account of any war ever to have entered the public record.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CNN live coverage of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. (YouTube)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The source for the \u201cIraq War Logs\u201d was once again Chelsea Manning, who by then was in a military prison awaiting trial on charges connected to \u201cCollateral Murder\u201d that wound up including 22 counts of theft, assisting the publication of classified intelligence and aiding the enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Documents <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the publication of  the \u201cIraq War Logs,\u201d WikiLeaks <\/em>disgorged an unprecedented profusion of documents, military reports and videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Logs cover the six-year period from Jan. 1, 2004, (a matter of months after the 2003 invasion) to Dec. 31, 2009. \u00a0WikiLeaks \u00a0<\/em>partnered with\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0Guardian<\/em>,\u00a0Der Spiegel<\/em>,\u00a0Al Jazeera<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Le Monde\u00a0<\/em>to disseminate the Iraq Logs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Revelations of WikiLeaks: No. 3\u2014The Most Extensive Classified Leak in History The \u201cIraq War Logs\u201d disgorged an unprecedented profusion of documents, military reports and videos.\u00a0 ***** For WikiLeaks, 2010 was an exceptionally eventful year. In April the transparency organization released \u201cCollateral Murder,\u201d the video of U.S. Army helicopters as they shot more than a dozen Iraqis in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[25872,6963,25875,21211,827,880],"class_list":["post-46158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-collateral-murder","tag-consortium-news","tag-iraq-war-logs","tag-patrick-lawrence","tag-united-states","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46159,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46158\/revisions\/46159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}