Wikileaks Releases CIA Document to Warn Its Enemies

Like it promised yesterday, Wikileaks has published a classified CIA document on the site. The document itself is interesting but hardly as controversial as some of the site's previous leaks. It's not the document that's important, but the message it sends, Wikileaks will not be stopped and will not bow down to any pressure.

The CIA document is labeled “What if Foreigners See the United States as an ‘Exporter of Terrorism?’” and is classified as Secret. It stems from a CIA unit called "Red Cell" which specializes on analyzing various aspects of the agency's operations and their repercussions.

The document, as the name implies, focuses on the issue of US sponsored or based terrorist groups operating in other countries. The fear expressed in the leaked report is that if other countries start to perceive the US as an "Exporter of Terrorism," they would be more reluctant to help and cooperate with the US.

While it's certainly food for thought, it doesn't really reveal anything that people interested in the matter wouldn't have known already. And there aren't that many people impressed with the contents of the document.

But the document itself is much less important than the message it sends. The Pentagon has recently asked Wikileaks to return all of the documents it has in its possession.

The whistleblower site says it still has about 15,000 unpublished documents about the Afganistan war which are currently being reviewed.

Wikileaks may also be in the possession of other documents including about 260,000 diplomatic cables from US embassies around the world and maybe other material as well. The site has denied that it has the diplomatic cables despite the claims of the alleged leaker.

At the same time, the site's central figure and public face Julian Assange, is being involved in what looks like a 'smear' campaign in Sweden, the country he has been spending most of his time lately.

An arrest warrant was issued in his name but was dropped just a few hours later after a woman accused him of rape. However, he is still facing 'molestation' charges which are less serious and could lead to a fine or even a year in prison.