The Obama Administration Benefits From WikiLeaks | NewsReal Blog

The Obama Administration Benefits From WikiLeaks | NewsReal Blog: "The Huffington Post is running an interesting article today entitled “The WikiLeaks Release: Blame the State Department, Not the World’s Media,” by a writer for the Guardian and the London Sunday Times, Simon Jenkins. He pointed out that the material leaked by WikiLeaks, and published by the New York Times and other newspapers, not only lacked top-secret classification. The State Department itself had made them available to some 2-3 million authorized users of the State Department’s own worldwide intranet.

Jenkins observed that the material went out uncensored, with names and sources disclosed, on the State Department’s intranet with an unsophisticated coding system. The material was downloadable and presumably capable of being forwarded on to anyone.

In short, Jenkins concluded,

The recklessness of such a casual approach to secrecy beggars belief… If I were an American source, I would be far more afraid of the State Department than the world’s media."

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