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The Afghan War documents leak, also called the Afghan War Diary, is the disclosure of a collection of internal U.S. military logs of the War in Afghanistan, which were published by WikiLeaks on 2010.〔〔 The logs consist of over 91,000 Afghan War documents, covering the period between January 2004 and December 2009. Most of the documents are classified secret. As of 28 July 2010, only 75,000 of the documents have been released to the public, a move which Wikileaks says is "part of a harm minimization process demanded by () source".〔 Prior to releasing the initial 75,000 documents, WikiLeaks made the logs available to ''The Guardian'',〔 ''The New York Times'' and ''Der Spiegel'' in its German and English online edition,〔("The Afghanistan Protocol – Explosive Leaks Provide Image of War from Those Fighting It" )〕 which published reports per previous agreement on that same day, 25 July 2010. The leak, which is considered to be one of the largest in U.S. military history,〔 revealed information on the deaths of civilians, increased Taliban attacks, and involvement by Pakistan and Iran in the insurgency.〔〔 WikiLeaks says it does not know the source of the leaked data. The three outlets which had received the documents in advance, ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'', and ''Der Spiegel'', have all concluded that they are genuine when compared with independent reports. ''The New York Times'' described the leak as "a six-year archive of classified military documents () offers an unvarnished and grim picture of the Afghan war". ''The Guardian'' called the material "one of the biggest leaks in U.S. military history...a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, Taliban attacks have soared and NATO commanders fear neighbouring Pakistan and Iran are fuelling the insurgency".〔 ''Der Spiegel'' wrote that "the editors in chief of ''Spiegel'', ''The New York Times'' and the ''Guardian'' were 'unanimous in their belief that there is a justified public interest in the material'."〔 Some time after the first dissemination by WikiLeaks, the U.S. Justice Department considered using the U.S. Espionage Act of 1917 to prevent WikiLeaks from posting the remaining 15,000 secret war documents it claimed to possess. ==Background== (詳細はNick Davies and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange established that the U.S. army had built a huge database with six years of sensitive military intelligence material, to which many thousands of U.S. soldiers had access and some of them had been able to download copies, and WikiLeaks had one copy which it proposed to publish online, via a series of uncensorable global servers. Some of the soldiers were not supposed to have any access as they were not involved in those operations. WikiLeaks describes itself as "a multi-jurisdictional public service designed to protect whistleblowers, journalists and activists who have sensitive materials to communicate to the public".〔 〕 In an interview with the UK's Channel 4, Assange said that "we have a stated commitment to a particular kind of process and objective, and that commitment is to get censored material out and never to take it down". He contrasted the group with other media outlets by saying that "other journalists try to verify sources. We don't do that, we verify documents. We don't care where it came from." He denied that the group has an inherent bias against the Afghanistan War, saying that "We don't have a view about whether the war should continue or stop – we do have a view that it should be prosecuted as humanely as possible." However, he also said that he believes the leaked information will turn world public opinion to think more negatively of the war.〔 An Obama administration statement disputed the self-reported status of WikiLeaks, stating that it "is not an objective news outlet but rather an organization that opposes U.S. policy in Afghanistan". Journalist Will Heaven of ''The Daily Telegraph'' has said that WikiLeaks was not politically neutral when it fed its information to the left-leaning newspapers ''The Guardian'', ''The New York Times'', and ''Der Spiegel'' instead of releasing the data openly. He said that the selectivity of the leak "contravene() its own mission statement – that crowdsourcing and open data are paramount". The ''Toronto Sun'' has referred to Assange's statements "This material shines light on the everyday brutality and squalor of war" and "The archive will change public opinion and it will change the opinion of people in positions of political and diplomatic influence" as evidence that he has an anti-war mission. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Afghan War documents leak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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