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In reply to the discussion: WikiLeaks: Bradley Manning's motives are no defence, judge rules [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)you want evidence that Manning put into danger people whose entire job is top secret and who are either still at their posts and under cover, or who have been quietly eliminated by the counterintelligence agencies (whose operations are also secret) of foreign governments.
Let me know when you figure out how ridiculous that request is.
I'll make it super simple for you. Some of the information that diplomats in our embassies and consulates report back to the state department is information gathered by spies who are based at the embassy and their contacts in the host country.
That information is now public thanks to Manning and Assange. Any information obtained by intelligence sources can now be traced by counterintelligence agencies of the other countries whose entire expertise deals with figuring out who are spies and who might have leaked or obtained information. Some of that work is as simple as this:
"Aha, wikileaks shows that a diplomat in an embassy in our country reported on a conversation which our investigation says took place in the defense ministry between Person A and Person B on Jan 14 2007 at 2pm. Well, only four other people were in that room at that time. Let's focus our investigation on those six people and put their lives under a microscope and figure out who is the spy"