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Or maybe this kid simply blackmailed someone for access...

If this stuff was stored at the "SECRET/NOFORN" level...and he was an intel weenie...then he most likely had a TS clearance...and it would be a piece of cake for him to get it.

So...two things need to happen: 1) Hang him and 2) Figure out what idiot stored info that could be an epic blow to the US if released...at the SECRET level.

Figure out what idiot stored info that could be an epic blow to the US if released...at the SECRET level.

i have had a little bit of experience with classified info. Likely these things were *in and of themselves* only at the SECRET level. No one considered the possibility of them ALL being released at one time. What makes this 'grave damage' to the US and its interests is not a couple of SECRET diplomatic messages being released to the public. What is doing 'grave damage' here is the entire thing, the big picture. intel is not about information, its about patterns, behaviors. As Sun Tzu put it, it is the shape of your enemy. This release has apparently painted a pretty thorough silhouette of our DoS.