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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
You release everything, you're releasing information that you don't want your allies or enemies to see.
There are reasons why you filter, because they do a great deal of harm in terms of building trust and securing international agreements if internal chatter is revealed like it has been in this case.
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I generally agree with this notion, but I think it would be unlikely that wikileaks has better clandestine sources than most nation states. I bet Iran (for example) already knows most of the important information being released through their own intelligence. The only difference now is that everyone knows that they know what we know... and now no one can play dumb.
Also, and realize that this is wading out into conspiracy theory territory, but I would not be surprised if American intelligence sources purposely leak information that wikileaks will unwittingly make public because it suits some greater purpose. I could see a scenerio where airing certain "secrets" could have politcal gains for some, and losses for others. I am reminded about a supposedly true story from the 1950s and 60s where the U.S. was purposely letting Soviet spies steal technology... but the technology the spies were stealing was faulty.