The Pentagon has established a team of 120 people to review its own classified files in advance of the possible release by website WikiLeaks of a massive cache of US documents about the war in Iraq.
Major Chris Perrine, a military spokesman, told the German Press Agency DPA on Monday that the Information Review Task Force was "reviewing the documents in our databases that could have been the subject of release."
Media reports have said that WikiLeaks is planning this week to release 400,000 US military documents about the Iraq war. The website displayed a note on Monday that it was down for maintenance.
The contents of a possible WikiLeaks document dump is "speculation," Perrine said. Given the uncertainty, the Pentagon's task force is studying military documents that might have been leaked "to assess them for potential impact."