Washington (CNN) -- The Defense Department has demanded that WikiLeaks return all documents belonging to the Pentagon and delete any records of the documents, department spokesman Geoff Morrell said Thursday.
"We are asking them to do the right thing," Morrell said. "This is the appropriate course of action given the damage that has been done".
Morrell denied published claims that WikiLeaks has asked the Pentagon to review 15,000 documents it has yet to publish from leaked Afghanistan military reports.
WikiLeaks reportedly has 91,000 United States documents about the Afghan conflict. About 76,000 of them were posted on the site last month in what has been called the biggest leak since the Vietnam War's Pentagon Papers.
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, blasted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange last week, declaring that Assange and the individual responsible for the leak "might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family".
Defense Secretary Robert Gates asserted that the massive leak will have a significant impact on troops and allies partly by revealing techniques and procedures. CNN
