Witness says Manning damage still being felt
By Julie Tate
Monday, August 5, 7:24 PM
... “I believe my colleagues abroad are still feeling it [the results],” said Patrick Kennedy, the undersecretary of state for management, in testimony during the sentencing phase of Manning’s court-martial at Fort Meade, Md. He said not only foreign officials but business leaders and other foreign sources are “reticent to provide their full and frank opinions and share them with us.”
Kennedy described a department in crisis following the leak of hundreds of thousands of cables by Manning to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, which provided them to a number of news organizations and posted them on its Web site ...
After the first release of the cables in 2010, the State Department set up a number of internal task forces to review the released material, attempt to mitigate the damage and identify persons at risk, according to Kennedy.
Kennedy said that for close to two months the department worked almost 24 hours a day, seven days a week to assess damage. But Kennedy said that as he was about to sign off on a final evaluation, a second tranche of documents was publicly released and the effort was scrapped. He said another effort at damage assessment would have taken too many resources ...
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