Damage from leaks? WH says disclosure alarming (AP)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks during a press conference in London Monday July 26, 2010.  Assange said Monday he believes there is evidence of war crimes in the thousands of pages of leaked U.S. military documents relating to the war in Afghanistan. The remarks came after WikiLeaks, a whistle-blowing group, posted some 91,000 classified U.S. military records over the past six years about the war online, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings and covert operations against Taliban figures. (AP Photo/Lizzie Robinson, PA) **  UNITED KINGDOM OUT    **AP – The monumental leak of classified Afghan war documents threatened Monday to create new conflict with Pakistan, whose spy agency was a focus of much of the material, and raised questions about Washington’s own ability to protect military secrets. The White House called the disclosures “alarming” and scrambled to assess the damage.


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