Wikileaks + US diplomacy = biggest "diplomatic" storm ever incoming !

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shio said:

I'm pretty sure that US stealing the diplomats' credit card numbers, figner prints, dna, email passwords, etc... are far more damaging to negotiations than US' opinions of them.

True. The fact that the cables are getting leaked in the first place is surely also a bigger problem, since it makes foreign diplomats distrust the US with their secrets.

Ironically, one of the leaked cables actually says that this distrust already existed for German diplomats, and that was of course before the leaks:

http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2010/02/10BERLIN180.html

"

These events suggest the need to
intensify our engagement with German government
interlocutors, Bundestag and European parliamentarians, and
opinion makers to demonstrate that the U.S. has strong data"
privacy measures in place.