Compiling the WikiLeaks Fallout

Now that the world has had some time to process the quarter million diplomatic documents published by WikiLeaks on Sunday, the media landscape is rife with reactions, threats, and warnings. Some US lawmakers have complained loudly and at length, saying that "WikiLeaks is putting at risk the lives and the freedom of countless Americans and non-Americans around the world." Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the leak "not just an attack on America's foreign policy interests, it is an attack on the international community." The Guardian points out that it's not the media's job to protect diplomats from embarrassment, and other US officials seem to agree, focusing their wrath instead on the security practices surrounding sensitive information. The Pentagon and other agencies are looking at ways to tighten security, promising increased internal auditing and banning the ability of systems containing classified information to connect to thumb drives or other removable media. Meanwhile, few officials seem to be commenting publicly on the contents of the leak, which are sure to cause diplomatic problems around the globe.

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Can't wait for wikileaks next target

[Anonymous Coward]

After the last few attempts to embarass and shame the USA, I am eagerly awaiting to see what other countries they will go after next. After all, some of the most secretive regimes in the world including China, North Korea, Iran, Russia must have some secrets that wikileaks surely must be pursuing to unveil.

If not, then it will show wikileaks to be a blatantly partisan and anti-US organization, not some self styled truth seekers.

Re:Democrats loved the Pentagon Papers

[Dishevel]

Diplomacy needs some secrets. Wither you are an idiot, you put zero thought into this statement or you are a liar.

Re:Hear that bullshit

[unity100]

Sure, but you have to realize that the lives of the patricians are worth more than the lives of the plebs, and the lives of the plebs are worth more than the lives of the subjet peoples.

wow. you put it quite aptly indeed. indeed usa takes WAY too much after the roman empire in most respects. from architecture, to its political mechanisms, to its culture.

Re:Fundamental question

[X.25]

Actually it looks as if this was part of the leak from the military person that is now in jail. He will be for a very very long time.

I love how people are absolving wikileaks of all responsibility.
Lets put this into a differn't set of terms.
An employee of a company say a network admin got access to the credit card info of a large number of people. He stole it and smuggled it out on a flash drive.
He then put up for sale and let's say Microsoft knowing that it was gotten illegally paid him for it and used it for marketing.....
We know how wikileaks got it but wikileaks didn't have to publish it.
Assage better start to really worry. He has now made some nations that are not the US very angry at him. Those nations have no problem with the idea of killing people that make them angry. And frankly since all the Wikileaks people will blame the US they will not even get a second look and wouldn't care if they did.

If you don't want to sound like a complete retard, never use analogies to explain you points.

Analogies don't work and they show that you have no idea what you're talking about.

If you can't explain it in your own words, don't bother explaining it.

Re:Doh

[unity100]

it happened to other people. whether it happened to germans is irrelevant.

get out of the cave you are living in. or stop watching american news channels.

http://www.google.com/search?q=cia+kidnaps+and+tortures&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aqY5RMOCoXjE&refer=us

Re:Had time?

[unity100]

yes. i was wrong. 99% of the other documents that are out, do not show varying levels of filth ... and what is revolving this planet at this moment, is a giant ball of gum, not the moon.

please, fuck off.

Re:Democrats loved the Pentagon Papers

[sumdumass]

Bradley Manning is a disgruntled idiot who should be facing the death penalty for his actions of retaliation for disciplinary actions that happened due to his own doing.

If you find him a hero, I would like to find out how much you think of the idiots who go into work shooting and killing their ex-coworkers the day after they got fired or laid off.

Re:Democrats loved the Pentagon Papers

[Tokerat]

It's a strange thing that "do unto others as you would have others do unto you" is not only the most important teaching of Jesus but also the most overlooked, especially here in Jeebus Country USA