I found it rather interesting that Hilary Clinton said a while back that Chinese citizens would be able to get around restrictions on information in their country because of how liberating the internet is.
Now though, she dislikes such freedom of information because it is embarrassing to the USA.
Personally, I'm glad these cables have been released. It gives a real insight into how government works, and confirms many things we have long suspected.
We should not fear the terrorists, and we should not run our countries' governments in secret in fear of terrorism.
It is also important to remember that it was an American with proper access to such files (of which apparently 3 million people could access!) who leaked them, Wikileaks is just the method by which they were distributed.
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