White House: No attempt made to stop news organizations from publishing reports on WikiLeaks
By APMonday, July 26, 2010
WH: No attempt to stop WikiLeaks news reports
WASHINGTON — The White House says it didn’t try to stop news organizations who had access to secret U.S. military documents from publishing reports about the leaks.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says he met with reporters from The New York Times, one of the outlets with the documents, last week. He says he sent a message through the reporters to the head of WikiLeaks asking that the online whistle-blower redact information in the documents that could harm U.S. military personnel.
Gibbs says the White House also received questions Friday from Der Spiegel, a German magazine that also had early access to the documents.
WikiLeaks posted 91,000 classified documents on Afghanistan Sunday. The organization’s founder says he still has thousands more Afghan files to post.
