WikiLeaks Docs Expose Afghan Informants

The WikiLeaks documents may not be as harmless as they first seemed: The Times of London discovered the names of dozens of Afghan informants in the documents after just two hours of searching. The documents also provide the informants’ villages and, in many cases, their fathers’ names. WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange said that his organization had checked the documents for named informants and that he was withholding 15,000 of the 92,000 documents until the names could be redacted. A senior official at the Afghan Foreign Ministry says, “The leaks certainly have put in real risk and danger the lives and integrity of many Afghans.”