WikiLeaks Claims "No Blood" on Their Hands
The founder of WikiLeaks claims that no lives have been endangered by the thousands of documents he has leaked:
The founder of the website Wikileaks has rejected US claims he has blood on his hands after releasing 90,000 leaked classified documents on the Afghan war.
Julian Assange told the BBC there was no evidence that any informants had died as a result of the leaks.
He accused the Pentagon of trying to distract attention from the thousands of lives being lost in the war.
The White House has appealed to Wikileaks not to publish another 15,000 documents it is thought to hold.
The US denied Mr Assange's assertion that he had asked the US government to help vet the documents to protect lives.
Mr Assange told the BBC's Newshour programme that the US government had presented no evidence that innocent people or informants had been harmed by the leaks.
And he directly addressed comments made by Adm Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, who sharply criticised Wikileaks.
"One must consider why the Pentagon is focusing on the hypothetical blood that it says might be on our hands - although there is no evidence of that - compared to the 20,000 lives that have been lost in Afghanistan that are documented and exposed by our material," Mr Assange told the BBC.
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