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I have to say that my understanding (and a random sampling of documents that I read) of the leak was that it was all about past tactical military operations in Afghanistan and didn't include details of intelligence gathering with attached names of assets; I don't condone publishing the latter and don't think it's a moral practice to publish such data that SHOULD be secret. Wikileaks should have been much more selective in what was published, no doubt.

The US government seems a little lax in securing their data as well, as it should be common practice to use code names for informants and not their real names. These are compilations of reports that are presumably forwarded from field units up the chain of command and back to the States - how many clerks, data entry people, and other personnel see these names in clear every day? That is simply terrible operational security.