Pentagon to Wikileaks: Um, can we please have our documents back?

Press secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters that the Pentagon is formally demanding — through the news media — that WikiLeaks return the reports, as well as 15,000 additional records that the Web site says it might release soon.

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“We are asking them to do the right thing and not further exacerbate the damage done to date,” he said. “If doing the right thing is not good enough for them, we’ll figure out what other alternatives we have.” He declined to elaborate on whether the Defense Department is contemplating legal action, but noted that the FBI and the Justice Department are investigating how the documents were leaked.

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