..... JUST "embassy cables?" What is actually the most secure mode of communication? Nothing electronic beats face to face. Next to that, paper communication carried point to point by .... courier. The exact description of a diplomatic bag. Those cables (and I'm not certain they were ALL cables) could have been CIA reports in the bag. Sometimes those things are attached by cables to the courier's wrist. The courier has the key and total access to it's contents. That is why I'm perplexed that the rank of the traitor is a mere private first class. That's why I'm certain there were higher ranked "leakers." This is simply My Lai all over again. Only LT Calley got the screws put to him, when in actuality it should have been HIS "higher," CPT Medina and the guys above him a couple of grades. That was the system protecting itself. That is what is happening here. Just cables? Those types of documents can be highly classified, and these apparently had the names of individuals both ours and host country nationals operating in the theater of conflict and in the various roles that are critically necessary to running counter insurgency contingencies. Yeah, I think disclosure of that kind of info rates the death penalty. Either via IV Tube or the sort of kinetic transfer of energy delivered by a Predator.
Good info. Thanks for the details.