U.S. State Department Planning said that launch WikiLeaks endanger lives

U.S. State Department warned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that the planned release of government documents endangers the life of the "countless people" and jeopardize cooperation with partner countries.

Wikileaks has provided the New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel daily with about 250,000 documents for publication, State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh, he wrote in an e-mail yesterday Assange lawyer of Jennifer Robinson.

The Pentagon said last week the U.S. Senate and House Armed Services Committees that the website WikiLeaks.org "intends to release several hundred thousand" classified U.S. State Department of cables.

The publication of classified documents that "endanger the lives of countless innocent people" of journalists to the soldiers, threatening military operations and undermine "the cooperation between countries," said U.S. Department of State in accordance with your email.

The State Department "not to enter into negotiations" with respect to a request for Assange to provide information on individuals who may be "at significant risk of harm" due to the release of publications.

"Despite his stated desire to protect those lives that have done the opposite and endangered the lives of countless people," Koh wrote.

The State Department demanded Assange return classified documents from U.S. government leaked to the website and purge all copies of the records of the organization.

Improving access

"If any of the materials intended to publish were provided by government officials, or any intermediary without proper authorization, they were provided in violation of U.S. law," Koh wrote. "While WikiLeaks said holding material, violation of the law is in progress."

Assange said today the planned release will include "all major issues" in the world today, Agence France-Presse.

"The material we are about to launch essentially covers all major issues in every country in the world," AFP quoted as saying in Jordan Assange a video link.

The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel were given early access to two previous versions of documents WikiLeaks U.S. military, with nearly 400,000 related to the war in Iraq, dated between 2003 and 2010 and 75,000 over the same period the war in Afghanistan. The documents were published on 22 October Iraq and Afghanistan Documents July 25.

National Security Risks

When Iraq documents were released, a Pentagon spokesman, Marine Colonel David Lapan, described as "raw observations from the tactical level of combat operations" and said his publication presents a risk to national security.

State Department spokesman, Philip J. Crowley, November 23, said the U.S. was preparing to launch new classified documents. The department is to "assess the potential impact on our continued diplomatic activity to notify the Congress and other governments what can happen," he said.

Launched in 2007, Wikileaks received confidential material that governments and companies want to keep secret the information and messages on the Internet "for readers and historians alike can see the evidence of the truth," the group says on its website .