How embarrassed government officials and US intelligence agencies have reacted to the US embassy cables Hillary Clinton chairs a meeting at the state department in Washington. The department has pulled its diplomatic traffic from the network where Bradley Manning allegedly found the US embassy cables. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP US officialdom could not quite make up its collective mind. The exposé of years of diplomatic cables was either such a grave threat to national security, endangering lives and rocking the very workings of government, that WikiLeaks was akin to a terrorist organisation. Or the information laid bare was old news and the whole exercise little more than journalistic hype….
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Is WikiLeaks hi-tech terrorism or hype? Washington can’t decide