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Rumpus Book ClubDoD vs. WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks, “the Internet service that offers whistleblowers an opportunity to publish documents that expose corruption and wrongdoing by state and private actors,” has drawn the ire of many corporations in the past, not to mention “North Korea, China, Zimbabwe, and a number of private Swiss banks.”
Well now the the sunshine-spreading website can add a new member to its list of critics: The Pentagon.
How do we know this? Because the website recently published a “32-page secret Defense Department counterintelligence study of WikiLeaks, which suggests that the American military was preparing to (or perhaps even did) attempt to hack into and shut down the site.”
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