Mullen: WikiLeaks sets a ‘dangerous precedent’

The expected release of thousands of new classified intelligence and State Department documents by WikiLeaks would endanger the lives of U.S. and allied troops in Afghanistan and threaten relations with other countries, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen says.

“It's a very, very dangerous precedent,” he said in an interview aired Sunday on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.” “What I don't think those who are in charge of WikiLeaks understand is we live in a world where just a little bitty piece of information can be added to a network of information and really open up an understanding that just wasn't there before. So it continues to be extremely dangerous.”

“I would hope that those who are responsible for this would, at some point in time, think about the responsibility that they have for lives that they’re exposing and the potential that’s there and stop leaking this information,” he added.