Former military people understand that ‘what’ is leaked has future implications, and the names of those who gave us information is in some of the documents. It puts those foreign sources lives in danger, and prevents others from giving our operatives further information....information that might stop a terrorist attack.
Lives are at stake, and conversations that might offend those the US has taken years to establish dipolomatic relations with ....are in those documents, that are leaked, and probably far worse documents are available; and the Pentagon is holding it’s breath the wrong one isn’t leaked that could start a war!
So far most of it was suspected or at least known, that is except for the insults. And the HOPES of getting more Intelligence is damaged for some time. Who will trust a country who can’t protect it’s secrets from world publication. A terrorist plan might be missed now, because of Wikileaks, and our sources will be afraid to talk to our operatives around the world.
There is a good reason for security clearances and ‘a need to know’ basis, that far left liberal democrats have been ignoring the past few decades, or more. Fools.
“Who will trust a country who can’t protect it’s secrets from world publication. A terrorist plan might be missed now, because of Wikileaks, and our sources will be afraid to talk to our operatives around the world.”
Who would trust ANY nation? You’d have to be a fool and most of these guys aren’t fools, they’ve got some thing that they think they’re going to get out of it. WikiLeak has just reminded them that the risks might be a bit higher than they thought so yes it will reduce our ability to get this type of information and increase the chance that we’ll have a few more successful terrorist attacks. The one to blame for this though is not the WikiLeader but the guy that is feeding him information and the US for not protecting this information. Who is going to trust a country that is this sloppy when it comes to protecting this kind of information?
As far as this starting a war? Please, nations don’t start wars because of this type of crap. Oh they may use this as an excuse but the real reasons are much more mundane like do I think I can win against so and so. Or how much land/stuff does he have that I want. Then they start looking for an excuse, any will do but this won’t be the real cause of something like that.