U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy WikiLeaks, 18 Mar 2008
This document is a
classified (SECRET/NOFORN) 32 page U.S. counterintelligence investigation into
WikiLeaks. ``The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or
elsewhere in the U.S. government are providing sensitive or classified
information to WikiLeaks.org cannot be ruled out''. It concocts a plan to
fatally marginalize the organization. Since WikiLeaks uses ``trust as a center
of gravity by protecting the anonymity and identity of the insiders, leakers or
whistleblowers'', the report recommends ``The identification, exposure,
termination of employment, criminal prosecution, legal action against current
or former insiders, leakers, or whistleblowers could potentially damage or
destroy this center of gravity and deter others considering similar actions
from using the WikiLeaks.org Web site''. [As two years have passed since the
date of the report, with no WikiLeaks' source exposed, it appears that this
plan was ineffective]. As an odd justification for the plan, the report claims
that ``Several foreign countries including China, Israel, North Korea, Russia,
Vietnam, and Zimbabwe have denounced or blocked access to the WikiLeaks.org
website''. The report provides further justification by enumerating
embarrassing stories broken by WikiLeaks---U.S. equipment expenditure in Iraq,
probable U.S. violations of the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty in Iraq, the
battle over the Iraqi town of Fallujah and human rights violations at
Guantanamo Bay.
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