WikiLeaks – State Secrets or Clever Tactics?
Is the US Government Machiavellian enough to orchestrate the recent brouhaha over the so-called website WikiLeaks, is this a real embarrassment, or will it indeed be damaging as some U.S. diplomats claim?
I am not one to support conspiracy theories but when you stop to analyze the content of the information that was leaked it seem that two things emerge: first, the content of the cables were not so earth shattering as to damage national security, or harm Washington’s relations with other countries.
Second, upon further analysis, it would appear that the information revealed instead sends a strong message to America’s foes.
Much of what has been released in those cables is hardly news in any real sense of the word. Take for example the report that the US has been spying on its friends as well as on its foes and that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ordered diplomats to assemble information on their foreign counterparts. Let’s get real. Friends have been spying on friends ever since man has been involved in conflict.
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I read Robert Baer's (former
I read Robert Baer's (former CIA agent for 30 years) reaction to Wikileaks and he said that 90-95% of classified information is trivial or already widely known.
I don't think there has been much damage to the US or any other nation due to the Wikileaks and, in all honesty, I'm not sure why this is such a big story. The only interesting thing I gathered from the leak was how much the Arab world dislikes Iran. Other than that it wasn't all that interesting.