I’ll admit I haven’t been following this story. But from what I’ve read, so far, the disclosures are embarrassing and don’t help diplomatic relations. However, IMO, the reason for that is the State Dept acts like a bunch of 6th graders calling people “names” and daring to put it in memos. Why aren’t they held to account? If my work memos included “name calling” and my boss found out, I’d be called on the carpet.
And what about the leakers...who the heck are they?
Everybody’s after the Wikileaks guy that published the info, but if someone leaked Obama’s records (BC, school, etc.) and a blogger published it, all FReepers would be cheering.
Maybe I don’t understand the real issues, as I said, not too involved in the whole story, so someone enlighten me.
I knew the Paul article would wake a lot of FReepers up on what has been a quiet Sunday morning.
I don’t mind most of that junk being published on Wikileaks. What bothers me tremendously is leaking information that blows the cover off important espionage operations, i.e. the president of Yemen trying to ID AlQaeda in that country (against the will of the rest of his government) or negotiations to get the Pakis to turn atomic material over to the US rather than sell it to terror countries or organizations.
And Assange is nobody to judge what can be “safely” leaked and what cannot.
And, BTW, anybody who thinks his dumps have been truly indiscriminate had better think again. He surely has expunged material that could prove embarassing to countries which either finance him or shelter him.
If a disgruntled gay Private could access all of the wikileak cables by putting a thumbdrive into a DoD computer,
THEN THE RUSSIANS AND CHINESE ALREADY HAD THEM YEARS AGO!
At that point, the only ones being kept in the dark are ordinary people.
The gay private DID US A FAVOR by demonstrating our utter lack of classified material security.