Top U.S. officer: WikiLeaks might have 'blood on its hands'

As Pentagon leaders go, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen are fairly mild-mannered -- prone to quiet, careful assessments, not table-pounding bluster. But they could barely contain their anger on Thursday at WikiLeaks for publishing tens of thousands of secret documents about the Afghanistan war. Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went so far as to say that the transparency activists "might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier" or an Afghan partner during a Pentagon press briefing, his voice elevating slightly.

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