Wikileaks

As WikiLeaks prepares a new dump of secret war documents, the feds’ intel swat team races to do damage control. Philip Shenon reports on its leader and its inner workings.

The controversial website WikiLeaks, which argues the cause of openness in leaking classified or confidential documents, has set up an elaborate global financial network to protect a big secret of its own—its funding.

The case of the Afghanistan war logs and the hounding of Julian Assange prove that theres never been greater need to speak truth to power than today.

This is a visualisation of activity in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2009 based on the Wikileaks data set.

STOCKHOLM — WikiLeaks will publish its remaining 15,000 Afghan war documents within a month, despite warnings from the U.S. government, the organization's founder said Saturday.

Since WikiLeaks' massive Afghanistan document dump on July 25, the organization has been critiqued for endangering civilian lives. Charli Carpenter of Foreign Policy argues the organization's tools actually have enormous potential to save civilian lives in conflict zones -- if standards can be creat...

Since the last post about Wikileaks on this blog, the site has drawn the world's attention with its release of nearly 100,000 classified military documents from the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Commentators have lined up on multiple sides, alternatively praising the site for its commitment to open infor...

The Obama administration has asked Britain, Germany, Australia and other allies to consider criminal charges against Julian Assange for his Afghan war leaks. Philip Shenon reports.