Scientific Dictatorship

(CNN) -- As his website sparks debate about classified information and what the public should know, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange talked to Larry King Monday night about the more than 75,000 documents his site recently made public reportedly detailing U.S. war efforts in Afghanistan.

Assange said the documents could contain evidence of war crimes by U.S. forces.

"We see events that are very suspicious," Assange said. For example, "We see an incident in August 2006 where U.S. forces, in one report, kill 181 what they say are insurgents. There's one wounded and zero captured. Those sort of reports have sort of this flavor of a lot of people killed, but no people taken prisoner, and no people left wounded give a deeply suspicious feeling of what happened during these events."

In the end, Assange said, "it will take a court to really look at the full range of evidence to decide if a crime has occurred."...

Labels: Afghanistan, WikiLeaks

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