Wikileaks

WikiLeaks is an international online not-for-profit media organization founded by Australian activist Julian Assange that has published and made available to the public a huge number of classified, uncensored and highly sensitive documents from various anonymous news sources. Its website, which opened in 2006, collected a database of more than 1.2 million documents in the first year alone. Time Magazinestated in 2007 that Wikileaks “could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act