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"Whistleblowing site WikiLeaks says it has a 'backlog' of further secret material after publication of Afghanistan war logs."

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he hoped for an 'age of the whistleblower,' 07/13/10. (photo: Graeme Robertson/Guardian UK)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he hoped for an 'age of the whistleblower,' 07/13/10. (photo: Graeme Robertson/Guardian UK)

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+9 # donnap 2010-07-27 14:05
BE SAFE JULIAN! THEY ARE AFTER YOU . God bless you.
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+6 # kalpal 2010-07-27 14:10
Forcing the public to know and understand that the military is not just a bunch of nice guys who say "aw shucks" a lot and mind their p's and q's will scare people.

Sending young men and women to do the work that requires well trained adults has an element of fright attached to it for all sides. 18 year kids are not great at holding back their fears and passions. They strike out when armed and people die who just happened to be nearby. Heartrending but true as this is it is ignored in favor establishing supremacy or ascendancy by force. Killing lots of bystander civilians has never fostered a population grateful towards occupiers.
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+9 # DaveW. 2010-07-27 15:04
How long can this man and his organization stay true to his ideals and also stay alive? Will he and his group be buried or bought? Call me a cynic. I believe what they are doing is absolutely essential just as it was for the "Muckrakers" of 100 plus years ago to expose the horrendous conditions faced by the American laborer. The Muckraker of then was silenced by red scare tactics in the early twenties, left gasping for survival in the great depression of the thirties, caught up in war fever of the forties, attacked as Reds again in the fifties, made some of their most profound and lasting contributions in the sixties, and since then have slowly but surely been portrayed, quite successfully, by a right wing, pseudo pious, corporate driven machine as somehow being anti-American trouble makers who don't "understand" the original intent of the founding fathers. The fact, is that they do, and have, "understood." We, as human beings keep looking for justification for war. I hope Assange and Co. survive intact.
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+3 # Rick Levy 2010-07-27 18:23
At the risk of sounding trite, keep on exposing and let the chips fall where they may.
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+2 # foxtrottango 2010-07-28 04:56
It seem the truth hurts and hurts bad. Especially when it's the very people in governments that are doing all the harm. When someone like Julian exposes the truth, all hell breaks loose from the very people who started the problems and do the misdeeds. In the US we have a supreme courts justices (five of them) that will look the other way around. They look the other way because they are in cohoots with this shanenigans.

I fear for the life of these brilliant young men who have gone on record to expose the atrocities created by the USA in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Until the USA change it's whole concept of justice (which is corporate-bought), the nation will sink into deeper despair and chaos.
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+1 # John Lewis 2010-07-28 08:39
Bravo Mr. Assange! "The truth shall make you free" so the Bible says. Let us hope that Robert Browning was right when he wrote "Truth never hurt the teller." You are a hero sir, so are all the whistle blowers, you have the admiration of the population. Keep on what you are doing. It is important to remove the blinders upon our eyes.
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+1 # Gilbert Thompson 2010-07-28 17:19
Mr. Assange is not a hero or one who is trying to assist in the end of war on our planet. His actions amount to treason!!! U.S. military personnel are at risk and the people in Afganistan and Irag who are aiding the U.S. forces will be targeted for execution. We are sending teenagers to these countries to do a mature man's job. Where was Mr. Assange when Bush & company was feeding the world buckets full of lies?
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-1 # foxtrottango 2010-07-28 20:48
It has nothing to do with "sending teenagers" to these countries. It has to do with these teenagers coming back home after witness the carnage they are doing by those in charge. Many are committing suicide because they can't cope mentally with it after they get back. The US Army doesn't care less as long it keeps the generals happy.

Get it right for once. The treason belongs to those in charge of these atrocities.

Yes, Mr. Assange is a hero to the truth!

That is a lot more than can be said about people like you who have no concept of what justice is!
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