If you're a US government official, you probably hate WikiLeaks. It certainly would have messed with your weekend. It trumped the voluminous war logs by releasing, starting last night, hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic dispatches. One day, we'll all agree with the Americans.
Someone I spoke to this morning - in the media, not in any government - described the situation as "apocalyptic", and called Julian Assange, the infamous founder of WikiLeaks, an "information terrorist". I thought the terms were overwrought, but the more I think about it, the more I agree.
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