Thats insane, the US government doesn't lie

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: You may recall that when Wikileaks released those thousands of
: documents on the Afghan war, the official US government position
: was that it should be shamed for putting lives in danger and
: "compromising intelligence sources and methods." It
: was only months later that Defense Secretary Robert Gates
: admitted no such thing was true. We're now seeing the same thing
: with the State Department cable leak. A number of grandstanding
: officials such as Rep. Peter King and Senator Joe Lieberman have
: argued that these leaks have seriously harmed US diplomacy. In
: fact, we heard how Wikileaks should be designated a terrorist
: organization for all the "harm" it's done to US
: interests. This was also a common refrain in our comments -
: especially when it came to stories about the alleged leaker,
: Bradley Manning. Over and over we were told he deserves no mercy
: for harming American interests.
:
: So... it seems rather interesting to see that US officials are
: now admitting that no serious "harm" has been caused
: by the leaks. In fact, the White House has admitted privately
: that it purposely lied about the supposed impact " in order
: to bolster legal efforts to shut down the WikiLeaks website and
: bring charges against the leakers." Implicated as chief
: among the official liars: State Department spokesperson PJ
: Crowley, who lead the propaganda campaign against Wikileaks for
: the past few months, claiming "there has been substantial
: damage," and that "hundreds of people have been put at
: potential risk." And yet, when Congress asked the State
: Department to back up those statements, officials told them it
: really wasn't that big of a deal:
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: "We were told (the impact of WikiLeaks revelations) was
: embarrassing but not damaging," said the official, who
: attended a briefing given in late 2010 by State Department
: officials.
:
: Basically, the details show what many of us have said from the
: beginning. Some of the revelations may be embarrassing, but
: that's mainly because stuff was hidden that shouldn't have been
: hidden in the first place. In fact, many of the reports have
: noted that the cables seemed to only confirm what many people
: already knew. Of course, that won't change the opinion of the
: people who have already made up their minds that Wikileaks is,
: by definition, harmful - which was the point of the propaganda
: campaign.
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