Wikileaks
During 2010, the Wikileaks website, managed by activist Julian Assange, released three troves of classified information, consisting of hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. government documents. Many of the documents, illegally obtained and transmitted by Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, detail U.S. military and State Department operations around the world. The Wikileaks releases have caused grave damage to U.S. national security and diplomatic relations. In November 2010, then-Ranking Member King called on Attorney General Eric Holder to charge Assange under the Espionage Act and called on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to designate Wikileaks a Foreign Terrorist Organization.