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So what? Just a quote.
And there were not "many real deal insiders." It was only one guy. Who according to his lawyer is locked up in a max security prison somewhere.
Another thing worth pointing out is that this info, despite being classified, was available to millions of people. It's a case of the U.S. overclassifying information, and then getting too lax with the security because they wanted better inter-agency cooperation after 9-11. It was probably inevitable that it leaked out in some form, only surprisingly thing was that it all leaked at once.
If it was all some kind of intelligence operation, they would have provided less info and made it more beneficial to U.S. interests.
Where's the value in revealing the U.S. is spying on the U.N., or locations of American nukes in Europe, or Shell's interference with the Nigerian government? In fact there wasn't any clear benefit to the U.S. in any of it, except for possibly embarrassing Iran by revealing none of the other Middle East leaders support them.
- the value is in creating new international cyber/info laws and perpetuating a battle of wordsDodecahedron
- whats more beneficial than controlling the internet?autoflavour
- Yeah but cmon now...they ain't controlling the internet anytime soon:)abettertomorrow