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That claim wasn't made by some random politician. It was made by Amnesty International, Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, Open Society Institute, the A
by openasocket 7y ago
That claim wasn't made by some random politician. It was made by Amnesty International, Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, Open Society Institute, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, and the International Crisis Group. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/10/afghanistan-war-logs-wikileaks-human-rights-groups https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/10/afghanistan-wa... . Reporters without Borders also mentioned it: https://rsf.org/en/news/open-letter-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-bad-precedent-internets-future https://rsf.org/en/news/open-letter-wikileaks-founder-julian...
There's also a statement from the spokesman for the Taliban saying they will go after the people named: https://www.newsweek.com/taliban-says-it-will-target-names-exposed-wikileaks-74257 https://www.newsweek.com/taliban-says-it-will-target-names-e...
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- jessaustin 7y agoFrom the first link: ...WikiLeaks had tried to comply with a private White House request to redact the names of informants before publication, but the US authorities had refused to assist. Thanks, Obama. Whatever, let's forget about that. The main point is, this material was released a decade ago. If anyone in USA military or intel had learned of a collaborator harmed as a result of the leaks, they would have crowed about it ad nauseam. Instead, crickets. Therefore, this didn't happen. Linking decade-old fear-mongering about "risks" supports the point rather than contradicting it.