Tweet Share Internal U.S. federal government assessments have established that a mass leak of diplomatic cables triggered only constrained harm to U.S. interests abroad,
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A congressional official briefed on the opinions said the administration felt compelled to say publicly that the revelations had seriously damaged American interests in order to bolster legal efforts to shut down the WikiLeaks website and bring charges against the leakers.
“I think they just want to present the toughest front they can muster,” the official said.
But State Department officials have privately told Congress they expect overall damage to U.S. foreign policy to be containable,
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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.
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National security officials familiar with the hurt assessments being conducted by defense and intelligence agencies told Reuters the critiques so far have shown “pockets” of short-term harm, some of it potentially harmful. Long-term hurt to U.S. intelligence and defense operations,
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