I was scanning this thread looking for someone to bring this up. Congress should investigate why a single person would have access to all of the information being posted by wikileaks. You would think that U.S. security would require that most of this information would have been kept in separate repositories where one person would not have access.
A second question I have is “who” requested that the information about U.S. vulnerabilities be gathered for dissemination on this relatively insecure information channel where this underling would have access? Congress should begin proceedings to find out how this occurred. I’m suggesting something far more sinister than Assange, here. I’m suggesting that someone in our government may have made sure that this information was present to be dumped by Wikileaks.
Many people do not realize that the CIA was founded after WWII to gather run of the mill demographics worldwide. Most CIA information is gathered by reading the local newspapers and listening to the local media. The CIA was needed because we found out that we knew very little about our enemies when WWII ramped up. Lack of information means lack of good targets in warfare. Wikileaks is serving that function for our enemies.
Finally, how are we to know what is valid and what might be counterfeited? Anyone with the morals of the Wikileaks founder would certainly be suspect to injecting his/her own “information” into the dump.
As I posted on another thread, I'm not a fan of congressional hearings since they tend to be nothing but forums for the worst bloviators among us. But this is one time when I hope Congress will act very swiftly after the new year to hold hearings on the entire scope of the WikiLeaks mess.
“Wikileaks is serving that function for our enemies.”
Right. But was it really a private who made this possible? I don’t think the private was the root of this leak.