Defense dept. orders Wikileaks to remove top secret military documents (video)

According to pentagon spokesman Geoff Morell, WikiLeaks has been ordered by the U.S. Defense Department to return secret military documents they leaked on the Internet. The defense department wants the whistle-blowing website to remove all classified documents from its servers, and to purge its entire system.

Morrell told reporters in a news briefing yesterday “We want whatever Wikileaks has returned to us and we want all the copies they have expunged. We demand that they do the right thing, and if doing the right thing is not good enough for them, then we will figure out what alternatives we have to compel Wikileaks to do the right thing.”

WikiLeaks published more than 91,000 secret U.S. military documents from Afghanistan recently and Morrell claims a government task force of about 80 personnel has been reviewing the posted records 24 hours a day. Julian Assange has not responded to the defense departments statements since the announcement was made.

The Department of Justice is still reviewing how it wants to proceed with the case while the FBI conducts a criminal investigation.

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