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From The Legal Adviser
United States Department of State
Washington, D.C. 20520
November 27, 2010
Via Electronic Mail
Ms. Jennifer Robinson
Attorney for Mr. Julian Assange WikiLeaks
179 Great Portland Street
London WIW 5LS
Dear Ms. Robinson and Mr. Assange:
I am writing in response to your 26 November 2010 letter to U.S.
Ambassador Louis B. Susman
regarding your intention to again publish on your WikiLeaks site
what you claim to be classified U.S. Government documents.
As you know, if any of the materials you intend to publish were provided by any government officials, or any intermediary without proper authorization,
they were provided in violation of U.S. law and without regard for the grave co
nsequences of this action .
As long as WikiLeaks holds such material, the violation of the law is ongoing.
It is our understanding from conversations with representatives from The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Speigel, that WikiLeaks also has provided approximately 250,000 documents to each of them for publication,
furthering the illegal dissemination of classified documents.
Publication of documents of this nature at a minimum would:
Place at risk the lives of countless innocent individuals from journalists to human rights activists and bloggers to soldiers to individuals providing information to further peace and security;
Place at risk ongoing military operations, including operations to stop terrorists, traffickers in human beings and illicit arms, violent criminal enterprises and other actors that threaten global security; and,
Place at risk on going cooperation between countries partners, allies and common
stakeholders to confront common challenges from terrorism to pandemic diseases
to nuclear proliferation that threaten global stability.
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