It was a classified diplomatic cable, in which diplomats are supposed to provide the unvarnished truth to Washington. There are a lot of occasions when you mentioning that unvarnished truth to the parties on whom you are reporting would be detrimental to our national interest.
Exactly. This kid sitting in a brig in Quantico has done INCALCULABLE damage to the US.
Sure, there can be lots of conversations about having these kinds of message on a universal server, even though it's a classified server. And, those would be beneficial conversations to have. But, the fact of the matter is that they've been doing it this way for the better part of two decades with no problems until now.
The bad news is that the repercussions for this will ripple forward for years to come. The worse news is that only a fraction of the 100Ks of cables have been published thus far. Who knows what other shoes will drop, or when.
“It was a classified diplomatic cable, in which diplomats are supposed to provide the unvarnished truth to Washington. There are a lot of occasions when you mentioning that unvarnished truth to the parties on whom you are reporting would be detrimental to our national interest.”
Understood,Now how do you do business with the US Government, when your name is on the NY Slimes front page ,the very next day?