Nearly all of WikiLeaks' headline-making releases of information have come from a single source: Bradley Manning.
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While serving as an Army intelligence analyst, he leaked an astounding amount of classified information to WikiLeaks: classified combat videos, plus hundreds of thousands of documents from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and from embassies around the globe. "His actions seem to substantiate that.Bradley Manning perpetrated the biggest breach of military security in American history. "I believe he has been described as an anarchist," he said. has signed up," he said.Ĭrowley, at the State Department, showed disdain for Assange.
diplomatic figures to engage in espionage in the United Nations, in violation of the international covenants to which the U.S. "She should resign, if it can be shown that she was responsible for ordering U.S. In an online interview with Time magazine from an undisclosed location, Assange called on Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to resign because of the cables asking diplomats to gather intelligence. While world leaders nearly universally condemned the leak, the U.S. Authorities believe Manning defeated Pentagon security systems simply by bringing a homemade music CD to work, erasing the music, and downloading troves of government secrets onto it.
WikiLeaks has not said how it obtained the documents, but the government's prime suspect is an Army private, Bradley Manning, who is being held in a maximum-security military brig on charges of leaking other classified documents to WikiLeaks. cables that characterized the South American country as privately cooperative in the war against terrorism, even as it publicly denies terrorist threats domestically. In Brazil, officials declined to answer questions about U.S. In Kenya, the government was outraged by a leaked cable, published by the German magazine Der Spiegel, in which Kenya is described as a "swamp of flourishing corruption." Kenya's government spokesman called the cable "totally malicious" and said the State Department called to apologize. World leaders, meanwhile, were fielding questions about candid U.S. WikiLeaks Defies U.S., Releases Embassy Cables White House Condemns WikiLeaks' Document Release Worldwatch: Embarrassing Revelations Abound Leaked Cables Shine Light on Iran Nuclear Threat Cables: Iran Armed Hezbollah Via Ambulances Hoekstra on WikiLeaks: "A Number of Time Bombs"Īhmadinejad Dismisses WikiLeaks Cable "Mischief" If they collect information that is useful, we share it across the government." Our diplomats are not intelligence assets," he repeatedly told reporters. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.Ĭrowley said a few diplomatic cables don't change the role of U.S. if diplomats are encouraged to gather personal information about some people," U.N. "What worries me is the mixing of diplomatic tasks with downright espionage. information-gathering blurred the line between diplomacy and espionage. and in other diplomatic circles over whether U.S. The possibility that American diplomats pressed for more than "open source" information has drawn criticism at the U.N. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters. before entering an embassy or military base, a U.S. DNA, fingerprint and other information was included in the request because, in some countries, foreigners must provide that information to the U.S. Every year, the intelligence community asks the State Department for help collecting routine information such as biographical data and other "open source" data.
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