Vishnu Kaimal 

Wiki Leaks said its next release would be seven times bigger than the Iraq war logs, documents which came close to a whopping 400,000 secret documents; quite easily the biggest intelligence leak in U.S history.
The whistle blower website gained notoriety for publishing classified military documents pertaining to Afghanistan titled The Afghan War Diaries which has led to a fallout among the military, politicians and of course the public on whether the site had gone too far in the name of journalism. Some 90,000 leaked U.S.

military records posted by the website amount to a blow by blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war which include unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures. The Guardian described the collections, “a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan.”
The White House condemned the document disclosure, saying it “put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk.”

The leaked records include detailed description of raids carried out by a secretive U.S. special operations unit called Task Force 373 against what U.S. officials considered high-value insurgent and terrorist targets. Some of the raids resulted in unintended killings of Afghan civilians, according to the documentation.

The details provided by the Wiki documents provides insight into the operational effectiveness of Task Force 373.

Among those listed as being killed by the secretive unit was Shah Agha, described the Guardian as an intelligence officer for an Improvised Explosive Device cell, who was killed with four other men in June 2009. Another was a Libyan fighter, Abu Laith al-Libi, described in the documents as a senior al-Qaida military commander. Al-Libi was said to be based across the border in Mir Ali, Pakistan, and was running al-Qaida training camps in North Waziristan, a region along the Afghan border where U.S. officials have said numerous senior al-Qaida leaders were believed to be hiding.

The operation against al-Libi, in June 2007, resulted in a death tally that one U.S. military document said include six enemy fighters and seven noncombatants-all children.

Veteran military and intelligence experts have called for tighter control over access to such information along with more intense supervision for those at the lower echelons of the intelligence operations.

Intelligence experts have made certain suggestions in the aftermath of the leaks. These suggestions include a drive by agency chiefs to limit access to electronic portals that supply information to troops, diplomats and so on.