Pentagon Papers redux comes with WikiLeaks

The release of thousands of classified documents on WikiLeaks about the nine-year U.S. war in Afghanistan represents the contemporary equivalent of the Pentagon Papers in many ways.

• The documents have embarrassed both governments.
• An insider “whistleblower” put the documents in the website’s hands.
• The material contains a mix of information already made public and some that those who classify documents hoped would remain classified, such as covert operations aimed at high-ranking Taliban leaders and the number of civilian deaths.

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