ARE+THERE+HISTORICAL+EXAMPLES+OF+LEAKED+INFORMATION?

List of important information that was leaked before the creation of WikiLeaks.


 * In 1971, military analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked the pentagon papers to the New York Times.


 * In the 1970s, W. Mark Felt leaked information about the Watergate Scandal to the Washington Post.


 * In 2003, Scooter Libby unveiled the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame.


 * In 2005, Thomas M. Tamm leaked information to the New York Times about the Bush Administration’s wire tapping.


 * In 2006 it was leaked that the Bush Administration had a program that would follow the financial transactions of suspected terrorists across the globe.