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The article focuses on a report that the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence issued on July 2004. The report contains three classified, community-coordinated assessments about Iraq that the intelligence community produced in the months prior to the war, including the intelligence estimate on Iraqi unconventional weapons program.

In this article the author discusses the release of classified documents by Bradley Manning, a private in the United States Army, which detailed the torture of dissidents in Iraq, and the complicity of the U.S. The author notes that Manning was driven by individual responsibility to release the documents. The role played in the dissemination of Manning's information played by Julian Assange and his organization WikiLeaks is assessed. In addition the author calls attention to the case of an anonymous Afghan security official who was murdered because he refused to take the life of a civilian.

The article looks at U.S. Private Bradley Manning, who stands accused of treason for divulging classified military information regarding the Iraq War through a website created by the Wikileaks organization. Manning's alleged involvement with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is discussed. Information on Manning's childhood and military training is presented. The author comments on rumors of Manning's emotional instability while serving in Iraq in 2009.

Focuses on the control of the archives of the dismantled Iraqi government by looters, journalists and spies. Type of information sought by U.S. and coalition officials; Other governments that want to have access to secret information; Documentation made by video and print journalists on the place where people were tortured under the administration of Saddam Hussein; Reason for the interest of France, Germany and Russia to see sensitive documents disappear.

The article discusses the public release of classified U.S. National Intelligence Estimates (NIE) on terrorism and Iraq. An NIE comments that high profiles attacks by Al Qaeda are continuing and predicts the situation will grow worse. A later NIE indicates insurgency operations are being prevented by U.S. and Iraqi troops. Robert Hutchings, former chairman of the NIE panel, suggests the release of NIEs to the public could affect the writing of the reports.

The author claims the Bush administration may have exploited leaked information about the identity of a CIA operative for its own political ends. "I want to know." So says George W. Bush now, speaking about the source of the leak that revealed that the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson is a CIA operative. But when conservative columnist Robert Novak published an article on July 14 citing "senior administration officials" that blew the cover of Valerie Wilson, Bush showed no interest in finding out anything about the leak; a leak that may have undermined national security; a leak that appeared to be aimed at punishing or discrediting Wilson, who had challenged White House Iraq policy, especially its prewar use of the claim that Saddam Hussein had been shopping for uranium in Africa. It was only after the CIA requested, two months later, that the Justice Department investigate the anti-Wilson leak that Bush and the White House paid public attention to it. He wants to know -- but he'll leave the inquiry to John Ashcroft's Justice Department, not a special counsel. The early evidence suggests that the White House -- whether directly behind the leak or not -- did try to exploit it. The White House, it seems, was not ignoring the leak because of its anonymous origins, as McClellan suggested; it was pushing the story -- amplifying the leak rather than containing it.

The article reports on news leaks associated with the 2006 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate, communicating that the terrorist threat is more acute than it was before the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. The article speculates that the timing of the leaks presents particular challenges to President George W. Bush in that it redirects attention from the war on terror to the Iraq War and questions the justification that the war is making America safer.

The article reports on the decision of U.S. President George W. Bush to declassify National Intelligence Estimates assessing the war on terrorism because of news leaks made to the media. It is asserted that this was an unusual move because instead of vindicating his prosecution of the war, the assessment is an indictment of it. Particular issues raised by the intelligence estimate are presented.

Reports on the fast-tracked portal dubbed Multinational Forces-Iraq Web or Iraqi Portal that allows multinational services in Iraq to share classified or unclassified information. Features of the Web portal; Industry participants in the defense experiment.