re: #8 Charles

The Guardian has their own share of the blame, but again - there would be nothing to blame them for if Julian Assange had not given them the cable in the first place.

As you stated before, the US Govt. failed their diplomats.
Manning stole.
Wikileaks disseminated stolen information.

But out of a cache of 250,000 cables, the Guardian chose that one to publish.

That story went around the world in print media and the blogoshere and wikileaks was the one who was named as releasing/publishing that cable.
That was on the 28th December.

It took the Guardian over two weeks to correct that record. I’m sure it was fairly out of the press by then.

I will not cut them any slack on this.
They have now taken responsibility for it, I think its a good thing.

The Guardian, Politico and the Atlantic have all offered updates to the original story, and I think thats a good thing.

Its about the accuracy of the reporting for me.