know as americans, considering it was out there anyway in wiki leaks? i think it is. look, if the release of classified documents puts our troops in harm s way, or hurts our ability to gather intelligence, i m against it, you re against it, virtually everybody is against it but i don t know that that s the case here. look, this war in afghanistan has not been going well. the united states beat both the japanese ant the nazis in four years. it s nine years into this war. and we re still screwing around with these people and the taliban. just because the u.s. government tells us that the release of these documents is harmful, i don t automatically believe it by the way, if they re harmful, then prosecute the leaker, you are allowed to do that if you don t prosecute the leakers, then i have to wonder how harmful the release of these documents really are.
corporate and government documents and information often involving america s war on terror. the documents appear to back up long-held suspicions that pakistan s military spy service may be secretly helping the taliban insurgency. great. joining us now from washington to assess the damage is fox news strategic analyst lt. colonel ralph peters. now, ralph, i read the the washington post, the new york times today, all the accounts of what these wiki leaks seem to say. i also have in my hands your column of tomorrow. basically, you re saying why is anyone surprised? i mean, this is what we should have suspected all along. why are you not surprised by this information? well, because i have been hearing from years for from my friends on the ground in afghanistan who have been in and out. i personally have worked with the pakistanis back in the 90 s. i have been arguing for years that the pakistanis are helping the taliban kill and wound american troops. and the outrage here isn t just
i mean, you know, we re being told that wiki leaks accept as number of documents from anonymous sources. then reportedly those documents are all vetted and it s up to julian asage to find out or settle on which ones are actually published. the leaker is the one who has got the big criminal problems, not the publisher. which is why julian assang said they go to the ends of the tort protect their sources listen. promise to whistleblower that comes to us. our rolls national public service provided they meet some very simple criteria like a lawyer we will represent them fairly to the court. in our case the court of public opinion. if wiki leaks paid for this information or they missioned this information that would change the entire legal structure, shep. shepard: it would change the legal structure but it probably wouldn t change his assertion that all he is really trying to do is let people know what s
the locals lived in fear. the afghan forces were no help. finally in 2009, the u.s. military decided to close that outpost. but, before that could happen, the insurgents attacked in an enormous way. the closest u.s. helicopters were 40 minutes away. by the time the reinforce. s finally arrived, eight americans were dead. almost two dozen wounded. and the transcripts of the calls on the two-way radio, the enemy inside the wire. they were inside our come found. the compound. the u.s. later abandoned that base. a few days later. leaving behind boxes of ammunition that ended up in the hands of enemy fighters. so who is the guy behind wiki leaks? and where does he get his information? fox news investigates in our top story coming up at the bottom of the hour. first though, big governments on developments on day 98 of the gulf oil spill and the man who promised to make it right is reportedly making his exit instead. numerous reports indicate tonight that bp s chief
that were made public by wiki leaks, an online organization that says its goal is disclosing secret documents to reveal unethical behavior by government and corporations. the documents span from 2004 to january of this year, and paint a bleak picture of the situation on the ground in afghanistan. now, among the most shocking findings, the paper reveal pakistan may be working against the u.s. effort allowing representatives of its spy service to meet directly with the taliban in secret strategy sessions to organization networks of militant groups that fight against american soldiers in afghanistan an even hatch plots to naet af assassinate afghan leaders. they are used heat seeking missiles to shoot down u.s. helicopters and u.s. forces actually covered up 2007 helicopter attack claiming that taliban members brought down the coalition helicopter with