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Re:UN special rapporteur on torture on his investigation int... by openasocket on Friday January 31, 2020 @03:25PM (#22205292)
That claim wasn't made by some random politician. It was made by Amnesty International, Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, Open Society Institute, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, and the International Crisis Group. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/10/afghanistan-wa... . Reporters without Borders also mentioned it: https://rsf.org/en/news/open-letter-wikileaks-founder-julian...

There's also a statement from the spokesman for the Taliban saying they will go after the people named: https://www.newsweek.com/taliban-says-it-will-target-names-e...

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Re:UN special rapporteur on torture on his investigation int... by jessaustin on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:54PM (#22206242)
From the first link:

...WikiLeaks had tried to comply with a private White House request to redact the names of informants before publication, but the US authorities had refused to assist.

Thanks, Obama. Whatever, let's forget about that. The main point is, this material was released a decade ago. If anyone in USA military or intel had learned of a collaborator harmed as a result of the leaks, they would have crowed about it ad nauseam. Instead, crickets. Therefore, this didn't happen. Linking decade-old fear-mongering about "risks" supports the point rather than contradicting it.

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