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A U.S. lawyer representing the whistleblowing web site Wikileaks says U.S. government officials have been given codes and passwords granting them online access to official U.S. government documents that Wikileaks so far has not published. Timothy Matusheski, a lawyer from Hattiesburg, Miss., who says he represents whistleblowers and has been in touch with both Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and at least one government official involved in investigations of Wikileaks, said Wikileaks had set up a “secure channel” through which authorized users could access the unpublished material. He said credentials for using this Web site had been forwarded to representatives of the U.S. government whom he did not identify. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Matusheski said U.S. officials had even been given access to an online mechanism where they would be able to redact what they consider potentially sensitive information. Matusheski says he himself has only been given a portion of the codes needed to access the unpublished material. So, he says, the U.S. government now has wider and more complete access to the material than he did. added by: toyotabedzrock