So, the website wikileaks continues to release confidential cables of US diplomats saying unfavorable things about foreign countries. I am sure they think they're doing the world a favor, and that these things should be released. I, personally, could not disagree more. In a world where the US is already viewed disfavorably, these cables stand to seriously endanger American diplomatic relations with foreign countries. Some things should be kept private, and I think US diplomats should be able to frankly and honestly discuss foreign diplomats, leaders, and policies without fear of having the information leaked.
In the meantime, the U.S. military has tried to close the security gaps that it believes allowed a low-level military intelligence analyst to steal hundreds of thousands of classified documents and ultimately give them to the WikiLeaks website. A U.S. soldier who served in Iraq, Manning has been charged with illegally transferring classified data onto his personal computer and adding unauthorized software to a classified computer system. The 22-year-old is suspected of having downloaded thousands of other documents from a server in Iraq. Hopefully, after this incident the US government will institute measures to keep such documents more classified.
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