Washington: The Pentagon is bracing itself for a second grand disclosure by Wikileaks on Monday, touted to be the largest security breach of its kind in US military history.
The online whistle blower website is expected to release a whopping 40 thousand documents on the Iraq war — five times the size of the Afghan document dump.
This disclosure happens to be four times the number of classified documents released on the Afghan war in July.
That move had triggered widespread condemnation because of fears that it endangered the lives of hundreds of American soldiers serving that country.
The US has urged WikiLeaks to return the information, arguing that it poses a risk to national security.
Measured by size, the database will dwarf the 92,000-entry Afghan war log WikiLeaks partially published last July. “It will be huge,” says a source familiar with WikiLeaks’ operations, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Former WikiLeaks staffers say the document dump was at one time scheduled for Monday, though the publication date may well have been moved since then. Some large media outlets were provided an embargoed copy of the database in August.
In Washington, the Pentagon is bracing for the impact. The Defense Department believes the leak is a compilation of the “Significant Activities,” or SIGACTS, reports from the Iraq War, and officials have assembled a 120-person task-force that’s been scouring the database to prepare for the leak, according to spokesman Col. Dave Lapan.
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