Pentagon Tells WikiLeaks: "Do Right Thing" [View All]

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Source: Reuters

Pentagon tells WikiLeaks: "Do right thing"
Thu Aug 5, 2010 2:17pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon demanded on Thursday that whistle-blower web site WikiLeaks immediately hand over about 15,000 secret documents it had not yet released over the war in Afghanistan and erase material it had already put online.

"We are asking them to do the right thing," said Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell in asking WikiLeaks to hand over the documents and delete material already on the Internet.

"We hope they will honor our demands," he told reporters, adding that the only rightful owner of the classified material was the U.S. government and the material had been stolen.

He urged the whistle-blower site, which caused an uproar when it published more than 70,000 documents last month about the war, to expunge those from the Internet.

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Would be amusing, if not such a weighty matter.