From the Washington Post of 31 Dec 2010
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WikiLeaks cable dump reveals flaws of State Department's information-sharing tool
Net-Centric Diplomacy was launched in 2006 and tied into a giant Defense Department system known as the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, or SIPRnet. Soon, nearly half a million government employees and contractors with security clearances could tap into the diplomatic cables from computer terminals around the globe.
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The system had no means of monitoring who was reading those materials. Why they were reading. Reading was ongoing all over the world. Wikileaks documents are rumored to be from CDs burned in Kuwait.
No problem, they said in 2005 when they were installing this system. We can always trust our half million readers to be honest. Attitude of a government that also so feared terrorists hiding under every bed. Who kidnap people all over the world due to mythical fears. Why trust even Army privates with this nation's military and political secrets while inventing mythical WMDs? Does the word intelligence have relevance?
No wonder White House lawyers had to rewrite science papers. No wonder the politically chosen were so busy rewriting the Baghdad traffic codes while the city angered due to no nation building. They feared mythical Al Qaeda’s hiding everywhere. And had no idea what the word security meant. No wonder every light was flashing read, and they did nothing to avert 11 September. At what point is Wikileaks just another trophy of a wacko extremism government? Imagine what it will be like with Sarah Palin and Christine O’Donnell?
The common word is intelligence - as in brain matter for those who also contributed a record campaign fund to Christine O’Donnell. Who then used that money to pay rent on her apartment.
But those who love her also blame Wikileaks for what our government was doing in 2006. Every one of 500,000 people can be trusted becaue they were not Clinton's people.