Is Wikileaking an inside job?

The charge is "The CIA is behind wikileaks". Of the "secrets" that have so far come out, they honour US policy rather than the opposite. If real Saudi views on Iran enter the public domain via a wikileak, so what? The US position emerges as that of a peacemaker. If China is leaked as saying it would be indifferent to a peaceful South Korean take over of the North, so what. It's piece of realpoloitik that has been needed to be said for years. The subsuming of the DDR into the BRD gave the new Germany heavy indigestion, and the unified Korea will inherit a far worse problem. What's worse to China, a nuclear tipped irrational NK or a united Korea with huge indigestion? No contest! What the US and the UK think about Pakistan in private has needed to be said for years.

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So much of the stuff served up serves US policy rather than not. Susman's (US Ambassador to UK) may have faked his anger and concerns about the leaks. And in an obscure Italian website Vincent Cannistaro has made it clear that not much damaging on Lockerbie is likely to come out, for the wikileaks are basically State Department communications and not internal CIA ones. Although not provable, it looks like an inside job. We may be looking sometime longer for gems, the CIA's secrets about Lockerbie seem to the safe for some time to come. Charles Norrie

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