re: Wikileaks is a threat to American National Security

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But here's the question NT, would you prefer the stolen secrets end up at Wikileaks or in Russia. The later would obviously do what it could to not alert us we had a security breech.

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Honestly there are disadvantages to both. But in the grand scheme, open leaks, though we're alerted of them, probably do more damage to the country's credibility and national cohesion than does traditional clandestine espionage. Especially when the leaks are almost entirely directed against the West and its allies.

And the compromise of a technical source isn't typically that hard to spot anyway. So it's not like wiki is doing the IC any favors. It's not quite like compromising a Human source and either being able to flip him or feed him disinformation and bullshite for a while before anyone catches on. Technical signatures and target behavior (and changes or countermeasures in either) are pretty easy to spot for a trained tech.