WikiLeaks releasing new secret Iraq papers
The always controversial WikiLeaks website, is set to release up to 400,000 secret war files on the continuing fighting efforts in Iraq. The documents will contain war information all related to the Iraq war. The last huge WikiLeaks leak came in July when the site published The Afghan Diary, a compilation of more than 70,000 classified documents about the Afghanistan war. Now the site is tapping into the secretive files of the Iraq war.
WikiLeaks has also been heavily criticized by human rights organizations, high-ranking Pentagon officials and security experts. They have scrutinized in that publishing the names of Afghan informants are possibly putting their lives at risk. Bradley Manning, an ex intelligence analyst in Iraq, is the military's focus in the investigation into the leaks. The 22-year-old remains behind bars in Washington for leaking the information to Wiki.
Since its release in July the site has come fire and a criminal investigation has been launched to determine whether the information gathered was acquired illegally.
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