In the fallout of the WikiLeaks story, I've read crap that suggested that over 800,000 Americans have Top Secret clearances and that if you add in those with a Secret clearance, the number is north of a couple of million.
I don't know how many of them had access to Siprnet, but the number is probably in the hundreds of thousands.
I imagine that believing that not a single one of those people hasn't been turned by the Russians, the Israelis or the Chinese would be kind of like believing in unicorns (or the inherent humanity of Dick Cheney).
But nobody seems to be talking about that.
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I've read a few of these cables. They've told me a few interesting things that I already knew, such as: the Russian Army is so hollowed out by corruption that it couldn't fight its way out of a limp noodle if confronting a real enemy, that Pakistan and North Korea are willing to sell nukes to pretty much anybody with money, that the Arab leaders are a buncha wimps, etc. In other words, they were classified, but more out of a fear of embarrassment, not because they had anything in them that everybody didn't already know (but which polite diplomacy refrains from saying).
What's more interesting is the reaction to WikiLeaks, not the cables themselves. For example, if Amazon.com does not want to uphold the 1st Amendment, they might as well quit selling books....
- Badtux the Free Speech Penguin
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