WikiLeaks releases new portion of classified data

http://rt.com/news/wikileaks-releases-classified-materials/

The world's biggest media outlets, including The Guardian, The New York Times and Le Monde, have published the first of a new batch of secret materials obtained by WikiLeaks.

This time it contains messages from US diplomats stationed around the world.

Just hours before, the whistleblower's website was reportedly attacked by hackers.

The release comes right after the US government demanded WikiLeaks return millions of classified documents.

Interestingly enough, many experts are not discussing the very content of the newly published leaks themselves, but what the leaking of this latest publication actually means. They claim that this signifies a troublesome time for US diplomacy and the State Department, saying security measures are not what they used to be.

The published information is not exactly groundbreaking. There are some intriguing communications concerning various world leaders, specific relations between some countries, such as between China and North Korea, Russia and the United States. But those revelations are not perhaps as interesting as the fact that they were revealed in the first place.

John Gearson, a terrorism and foreign policy expert at King's College, warns that the files published by the website do not necessarily reflect the country's policy.

"Taken out of context, these documents might give a misleading picture," Gearson said.

"If we just take one document and say, it says this rude thing about this leader... this doesn't necessarily mean it's this country's policy, it means that's one insight."

"Just putting out information into the public domain doesn't always lead to better policy and better governments; it can sometimes lead to an unintended outcome," he pointed out.

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