WikiLeaks has caused little lasting damage, says US state department

By (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)

US News • January 2011 • Views: 1,315

The damage caused by the WikiLeaks controversy has caused little real and lasting damage to American diplomacy, senior state department officials have concluded.

It emerged in private briefings to Congress by top diplomats that the fallout from the release of thousands of private diplomatic cables from all over the globe has not been especially bad.

This is in direct opposition to the official stance of the White House and the US government which has been vocal in condemning the whistle-blowing organisation and seeking to bring its founder, Julian Assange, to trial in the US.

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6 comments

Charles Johnson Wed, Jan 19, 2011 10:38:57am

That’s good to hear, but it wasn’t for lack of trying.

And I doubt that the State Department would openly acknowledge any damage.

The real bottom line is that for all the hype, there have been almost no real stories coming from those cables. The vast majority seem to show diplomats doing their jobs as best they can - or just confirm things that any reasonably aware observer of international relations already knew.

(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Wed, Jan 19, 2011 11:28:42am

The real bottom line is that for all the hype, there have been almost no real stories coming from those cables.

I beg to differ.

Charles Johnson Wed, Jan 19, 2011 1:20:13pm

re: #2 000G

I beg to differ.

I think that CBS News article makes my point, actually, but I guess you think those stories are more important than I do. Almost none of them broke through to any large scale media coverage.

(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Wed, Jan 19, 2011 2:09:20pm

re: #3 Charles

I think that CBS News article makes my point, actually, but I guess you think those stories are more important than I do. Almost none of them broke through to any large scale media coverage.

In a way, I think that’s been a pity. Like that India torture story, I would have liked to see that get more traction. But maybe that was to be expected from the WikiLeaks way of disseminating the information: a lot of material dumped in a short amount of time will not neccessarily lead to a lot of stories with equally big coverage get to the front of the news. It was also a pity, in my opinion, how much of the coverage was concerned with WikiLeaks (and then the coverage of the coverage and so on) and not with the contents of the cables.

Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Wed, Jan 19, 2011 4:02:58pm

re: #4 000G

Material simply dumped will never lead to any stories. Stories need to be written, narratives need to be created.

That is what Wikileaks fails at, and why its outcomes are more negative than positive.

(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Thu, Jan 20, 2011 7:31:44am

re: #5 Obdicut

Material simply dumped will never lead to any stories. Stories need to be written, narratives need to be created.

That is what Wikileaks fails at, and why its outcomes are more negative than positive.

I think you don’t have a correct idea about how WikiLeaks collaborated with the established media in their publication process lately: [Link: www.businessweek.com…]

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