Julien Assange

Wikileaks' Afghanistan Reports Are Old News, White House Argues

The White House, facing its second Afghanistan-related crisis in a month, on Monday sought to play down the leak of 92,000 reports of secret military intelligence regarding the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, released on Sunday by the whistleblower Web site Wikileaks. Covering a period from January 2004 to December 2009, the material details an uphill battle in the fight to rout the Taliban in Afghanistan, one protracted and complicated by corrupt partners, under-resourced American battalions, questionable covert U.S. military tactics and an enemy more capable and better armed than previously ...

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