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The whistle-blowing website Wikileaks is down, users have been reporting today. Repeated attempts to connect with the home page and other internal pages failed when I tried earlier this afternoon. The best I could achieve was a blank white screen.

The site’s outage comes just one day after it published over 90,000 classified pages relating to military and state department activity concerning the Afghanistan war and Pakistan. Rumors abound about the cause ranging from (likely) server overload because of the interest in the documents to (perhaps less likely) Pentagon, CIA, or NSA, interference with the site.

Many users on Twitter noted Wikileaks’ downtime:

@sethodell: Looks like @wikileaks site is completely down. Wonder if it’s due to today’s surge in traffic, or something else entirely?

@Sock_De_Jour: Wikileaks site is down. Pentagon hacking it? Or too much traffic? #p2

The website “Down For Everyone Or Just Me” confirmed the site’s outage, as did Wikileaks via its official Twitter feed.

@Wikileaks: WikiLeaks is tremendously overloaded. Please use http://bit.ly/9RlJQAless than a minute ago via bitly

However that link failed to work for me as well, resulting only in a page not found error screen.

Keep your eye on the news during the day for updates. Keith Olbermann (http://countdown.msnbc.com/) is bound to have it as his first story tonight. It will be worth a watch: 8 p.m. eastern, 7 p.m. central.