Internal reviews from the Obama Administration have been leaked to the press, and concede that while officials are publicly claiming WikiLeaks releases pose a major threat to national security the releases are by and large more embarrassing than damaging.
State Department officials are even said to have private told Congress that the damage done by the leaks is “containable.” The revelations run the gamut from illegal spying operations in allied nations, operating out of embassies, to plots by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others to steal credit card numbers from top UN officials.
The comments further damage the credibility of official lamentations about the horrors of WikiLeaks revealing truth to the American public, after Pentagon officials also privately conceded that no one had actually been killed by WikiLeaks, even as they were publicly accusing the organization of having “blood on its hands.”
So far the sum total of the releases has been public shaming of a number of officials and forcing the State Department to relocate some of their envoys because of inappropriate comments they made. The crimes detailed in the leaks have so far gone entirely unpunished.
Leaked diplo-cables "more embarrassing than damaging!" Gosh, really? Wait a minute, wasn't that point made by Antiwar.com about weeks ago?
It's not containable. I mean your credibility as the righteous good guy nation which has the moral high ground to lecture the rest of the world. No Washington, you are totally clueless, your credibility is totally gone forever and nothing you do can contain that!
Please remind me never to embarrass Huckabee lest I end up assassinated. If Hillary's State Department is embarrassed, just think of how the rest of Americans feel. Our whole government is an embarassment.
The memos are already triggering revolutions across the Muslim world. These memos reveal their leaders as liars, Zionism supporters and corrupt. The people have only one way to remove these ingrates: revolutions. Expect Iranian-style revolutions everywhere. Some might be suppressed by the military in many of these countries are filled with soldiers who know of the information in these memos and like in Tunisia, will refuse to fight for their corrupt dictators.
The Iranian revolution is not a good example. We all know how that ended up. However, Tunisia should be their flag. Now, look at this other little tidbit of leaked info and check out the timelines:
WikiLeaks: U.S. told diplomats to gather intelligence on Israel, PA
Leaked cable shows that the U.S. instructed its diplomats in 2008 to gather data on encrypted Israel communications and to build profiles of Palestinian leaders.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/wik…
Who'd want to go overthrowing a perfectly good government just because somebody was 'shooting the lit'? Geez, it's not like that Hitler fella going and leading their country into war, or anything like that. Gilding the lily to get ahead is standard operating procedure in big bizness and that's what life's all about, really, ain't it?
Ok, we know they cables are not harmful. But embarrassing? Doesn't logic dictate than in order for someone to embarrassed, they'd have to have shame first? These shills lack all empathy including the ability to feel shame/embarrassment which is the reason why they're all socio/psychopaths.
If the net result of the cables is to cause a lot of further unrest in the Middle East, so be it- just as for American politicians, if ME politicians did the deeds they need to be held accountable as well. Our problem is the American people have been turned into sheep and won't even THINK about ousting government officials a la Tunisia.
On the other hand, those repressive secular governments that are quaking in their boots may just get replaced with governments not necessarily in line with what the US can handle- we may see a wave of nominally Muslim nations become de facto Islamic nations, complete with sharia-based law and all that. The really fun part will be IF that happens and those nations actually abide by Islamic teachings and moderate jursiprudence, the US will have no leg to stand on to complain or criticize. Who, then, will the USG select to be The Next Big Enemy?