Wikileaks to finally dump 400K secret Iraq reports Monday

It’s taken Wikileaks awhile since first announcing that it was about to release more than 400,000 military reports concerning the Iraq war. But Monday looks like the day. Expect the shit to hit the media fan. While it’s dubious anything substantial or revelatory will be included, it still should be quite interesting to watch how the military and the administration handle any potentially embarrassing facts and figures. It will also be amusing to watch the spittle fly as the right-wing media tries to downplay the seriousness of any such revelations while calling the rest of the media and Wikileaks ‘traitors’ and all sorts of silly names.

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Friday it was scouring through an Iraq war database to prepare for potential fallout from an expected release by WikiLeaks of some 400,000 secret military reports.

The massive release is set to dwarf the whistleblower website’s publication of 77,000 classified US military documents on the war in Afghanistan in July, including the names of Afghan informants and other details from raw intelligence reports. Another 15,000 are due out soon.

In order to prepare for Monday’s anticipated release of sensitive intelligence on the US-led Iraq war, officials set up a 120-person taskforce several weeks ago to comb through the database and “determine what the possible impacts might be,” said Colonel David Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman.

The Department of Defense is concerned the leak compiles “significant activities” from the war, or SIGACTS, which include incidents such as known attacks against coalition troops, Iraqi security forces, civilians or infrastructure in the country.

The data was culled from an Iraq-based database that contained “significant acts, unit-level reporting, tactical reports, things of that nature,” said Lapan, noting that Pentagon officials still do not know how many and which documents would be released.