Millions of People Already Had Access to the Sensitive Information Put Out by Wikileaks

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Publication of the list of sites considered vital to US interests does seem reckless but, with senior US politicians calling for the assassination of WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange, we should perhaps ask where the fault truly lies ("Scots firm on WikiLeaks list", The Herald, December 7).

The sites were identified by US diplomats (part of their job) and distributed to embassies by the State Department. As part of that distribution, the cable was placed on a large database to which millions of US citizens have remote access. At least one of those vetted citizens downloaded the database and passed it to WikiLeaks which, under considerable pressure at present, decided to publish.

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Millions of People Already Had Access to the Sensitive Information Put Out by Wikileaks

It is a truism that any country with an effective intelligence service (Russia? China?) already had agents with access to the databa...

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