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I wish our own administration had had the wisdom to recognize this fact.

Though I've read that SIPRNet authorizes "only" 400,000-500,000 people to read such "secret" cables.

Maintaining military secrecy - when it WORKS - is a useful goal that can save lives.

But establishing a national caste system where one segment of the population is allowed to know what is going on and another isn't, and to enforce it by threatening to prosecute outlets like the New York Times for printing what readers of the The Guardian in Britain already know - that is not secrecy but oppression!

The names of the Iraq and Afghanistan confidential informants, the more sensitive names in the diplomatic cables - these things should be kept in a SAFE in the EMBASSY, and anyone who NEEDS TO KNOW should have to call up and ASK PERMISSION.