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After the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks released more than 91,000 documents pertaining to the Afghanistan War, the Obama Administration was quick to condemn the leaks as an action that jeopardizes the security of Americans.
The Pentagon, however, doesn't appear to agree:
No sooner did the stories appear this weekend than U.S. National Security Adviser James Jones "strongly" condemned the WikiLeaks disclosure, saying that the trove of classified documents "could put the lives of American and our partners at risk and threaten our national security."
But David Lapan, deputy assistant secretary of defense for media operations, told NBC News on Monday that a preliminary review by a Pentagon "assessment" team has so far not identified any documents whose release could damage national security. Moreover, he said, none of the documents reviewed so far carries a classification level above "secret"— the lowest category of intelligence material in terms of sensitivity.