According to the WSJ,
Wikileaks has (in the US) been hosted on Amazon servers during the cyber attack on its main service.
I begin to think Manning has done you guys a favour -though it doesn't feel like it yet. What he's done is exposed the range of important as well as trite and gossip style information that may be cluttering up this network.
The whole purpose of Siprnet was originally to create a central store of classified that various security departments could use and share relevant information regarding pertinent security threats that the US had to know about and had to have everyone informed about.
By becoming diluted into a network for all sorts of Govt information since 2001 - including whether such irrelevant things like Prince Andrew being a bit grumpy or what certain ambassadors thought of other worl leaders they dealt with - hasn't the whole thing become tainted?
Wasn't such a thing as Wikileaks always going to happen then?
Storing relevant absolulty critical data that was about the integral safety of the US should be the prime mission aim of such a network, in such a case I doubt anyone (including Private Manning) would have ever thought of copying over and making public files really would harm the US's ability to keep an eye on terror groups and individuals trying to operate in the US.
N.B. to Kal'Stang - I simply quoted your post as you made some good points that I wanted to expand on or explore, I don't disagree the points you've made there.