China's Politburo Behind Google Cyber-Attack?

theodp writes "While Wikileaks itself is under a DoS attack, details about the US State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks are starting to come out via the mainstream media. Among the most newsworthy, reports Techcrunch's Erick Schonfeld, is one set which deals with the massive computer attack on Google and other companies which was first revealed last January. According to the NY Times, some of the new leaked cables point directly at China's Politburo for instigating the original attacks, which should shed some more light on why the White House and State Department backed Google so vociferously at the time. Developing, as Drudge likes to say."

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So the USA suppresses information that china's government engaged in illegal hacking, and the USA is behind the DDOS attack on wikileaks. Why can't China be behind it after a US agent tells a chinese agent what is happening.

I know because China is good and the USA is bad.

Well it would take incompetence of monumental magnitude if the DDOS attacks came directly from government networks. The very logical choice would be to look at where has been a threat of cyber attacks recently in the news and pay some criminals from that country. Really the huge motive and endless press releases begging or emotionally blackmailing wikileaks not to release the documents sure makes it clear in most peoples minds who is really behind the DDOS attacks.