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Afghanistan, when it released 90,000 afghan war documents. molly, this is something that everybody was fearful of. the founder says he has the new material. what is he talking about? julian assange who, started wikileaks, a site that says it provides a public service by protecting whistleblowers, journalists and activists says the previous posting of thousands of classified military report, mostly related to afghanistan has emboldened others to come forward and provide more material, including, he told nbc, papers that detail instances of abuse, including sexual abuse in the military. assange says the documents will be posted on wikileaks within weeks. juliette. do we know who gave the documents to wikileaks? the military appears to be honing on 22-year-old army intelligence analyst bradley manning, but he is not an official suspect. ....
The marines, navy, air force. are they going to do similar studies now that they see this alarming trend inside the army? reporter: the army borne the brunt of this, actually, because you don t see the same trends in the other services. only marine corps suffering the kind of battlefield casualties that the army is, you know, statistically but the air force and navy don t see those kind of problems. it is primarily the army which, again, shouldering most of the burden in terms of ground combat first in iraq and now in afghanistan. all right. jim miklaszewski with, frankly, depressing report out of the pentagon. thanks very much. the military lashing out over the leak of the secret afghan war documents. military s top official went on the record thursday saying the leak has endangered those in the field. the battlefield consequences of the release of these documents are potentially severe and dangerous for our troops, ....
Doing there is to get documents and paperworks to take their u.s.-born children back to mexico, because the children don t have any papers to live in mexico. that is one story, and another story that we are seeing is to look at this video of shuttered houses and communities where many people have left their homes behind, and this is where many illegal immigrants have lived and we are told in the last few weeks the uptick of people fleeing has dramatically increased and impacted the businesses in the community which are also shutting down. suzanne, it is not only have an effect here in arizona, but a trib trickle over effects for the rest of the country. i interviewed one immigrant we will call jennifer whose husband was deported to mexico two years ago and killed when he went back there. she does not want to leave, but she is leaving arizona and you might be surprised where she is going. listen. ....
Res accidents downstream of an 840,000 oil spill in a creek that leads to the kalamazoo river. police say the choking smell of oil is hanging over the river valley the day after a 30-inch pipeline broke. the energy company that owns the line says crews are cleaning up the oil with skimmers and absorbant booms. in the u.s. a top military leader was greeted in iraq with a political stalemate, a rash of violence and an impending withdrawal. the drawdown is still on track. the stop in iraq follows his meetings with political leaders in afghanistan. it s now in the spotlight after tens of thousands of classified documents about the war were leaked. well, i really am appalled by the leak, and i believe there s ....
Detail laid out in the documents. the heavy detail about how extensive those contacts are and how the pakistani intelligence service may be plotting with the taliban to launch attacks against u.s. soldiers and launches a slauncw launches a sas nation attacks against the administration. and unlike the bush administration, the obama administration is not giving pakistan a blank check. we have substantially increased our commitment there. insisted upon greater accountability from the partners in afghanistan and pakistan. developed a new strategy that can work and put in place a team including one of our finest generals to execute that plan. now, we have to see that strategy through. reporter: now i pressed robert gibbs on the fact is there real accountability here when even though the president has now approved some $7.5 ....