http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/state-department-anxious/ By Kim Zetter and Kevin Poulsen Threat Level Wired.com June 8, 2010 The State Department and personnel at U.S. embassies around the world are reportedly waiting anxiously to find out if an Army intelligence analyst was telling the truth when he boasted that he had supplied 260,000 classified State Department diplomatic cables to the whistleblower site Wikileaks. If Wikileaks has the secret documents and publishes them, the leak could not only expose damaging information about U.S. foreign policy and national security issues, but also expose embarrassing information about backroom diplomatic deals and U.S. attitudes toward foreign leaders . such as the opinions of U.S. ambassadors about the honesty, integrity, and strength and longevity of those leaders. The concerns are reported in a story published at the Daily Beast that appears to confirm that alleged leaker Bradley Manning had access to the kinds of cables he recently discussed with a former hacker who turned him in to authorities. As previously reported, Manning told ex-hacker Adrian Lamo that he had given 260,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables to Wikileaks, and said the documents exposed .almost-criminal political back dealings.. [...] _______________________________________________________________________________ Attend Black Hat USA 2010, hosted at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada July 24-29th, offering over 60 training sessions and 11 tracks of Briefings from security industry elite. To sign up visit http://www.blackhat.comReceived on Tue Jun 08 2010 - 22:07:39 PDT
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