US Intell planned to destroy Wikileaks

[Jan Klimkowski]

Reporters Without Borders accuses WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of 'incredible irresponsibility' over leaked documents

But then Reporters Without Borders shows all the signs of being a psyop.

See the DPF thread on RWB here:
http://www.deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/...borders%22

Here is so-called "press freedom group" RWB's take on wikileaks:

Press freedom group joins condemnation of WikiLeaks' war logs

Reporters Without Borders accuses WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of 'incredible irresponsibility' over leaked documents

A group that campaigns for press freedom has become the latest organisation to condemn WikiLeaks for publication of the leaked Afghanistan war logs.

In an open letter to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Reporters Without Borders accused him of "incredible irresponsibility" for publishing the tens of thousands of documents "indiscriminately". WikiLeaks initially withheld around 15,000 of more than 92,000 reports to protect informants but Assange revealed yesterday it is preparing to publish them, once the organisation has finished checking them all.

The letter from Reporters Without Borders' secretary-general, Jean-François Julliard, and the organisation's Washington representative, Clothilde Le Coz, acknowledged that WikiLeaks had played a "useful role" in the past, citing its publication of a video of the killing of two employees of the Reuters news agency and other civilians by US military personnel in Baghdad in July 2007. But it criticised Assange for putting the lives of people who had collaborated with US and Nato forces at risk and providing ammunition for governments to put the internet under surveillance.

"Revealing the identity of hundreds of people who collaborated with the coalition in Afghanistan is highly dangerous," they wrote. "It would not be hard for the Taliban and other armed groups to use these documents to draw up a list of people for targeting in deadly revenge attacks."

They said that the publication of the documents "reflects a real problem of methodology and, therefore, of credibility".

On Twitter, WikiLeaks responded by deriding Reporters Without Borders as "Reporters San Fact", accusing the organisation of issuing "some idiot statement, based on a bunch of quotes we never made".

Assange said yesterday WikiLeaks was about halfway through reviewing the remaining 15,000 documents but gave no timeframe for their publication.

The Pentagon, which has demanded that WikiLeaks delete the cache of secret US military files, reacted with anger to the prospect of further documents being published. Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said: "It would compound a mistake that has already put far too many lives at risk," he said. The Pentagon believes it has identified the documents in question and Morrell told the Washington Post they were "potentially more explosive, more sensitive".

Reporters Without Borders' criticism follows a letter sent to WikiLeaks by five human rights organisations, including Amnesty International and the Open Society Institute, expressing their concerns about the biggest leak in US military history.

Assange, replied to the letter by asking the groups concerned to help WikiLeaks redact the names. He also threatened to expose Amnesty if it refused to provide staff to help with the task, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The initial documents were shown to the Guardian, the New York Times and the German weekly Der Spiegel and they published edited extracts with details of the individuals removed

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug...ut-borders