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QUESTION: On the WikiLeaks, do you have any more clarity on that these that there's going to be this another kind of release of a large tranche of documents that are related to the war in Iraq, supposedly State Department cables. And I'm wondering if you have any more clarity about the type of documents that are going to be released and whether you're concerned that they will jeopardize anything, any --
MR. CROWLEY: Do we have clarity about what they have? I don't know that we do. We continue to investigate, working with military authorities, what might have been downloaded from military computer networks. On the other hand, do we have concerns, the same kinds of concerns that our leaders have talked about recently, including over the weekend? Absolutely.
Notwithstanding efforts to try to sanitize these documents, we do have concerns about sources and methods, key sources of who are, for the State Department, largely human beings. And the revelation, public revelation of these sources can put them as well as our own diplomats and our own interests at risk. And as we've seen as, I think, both Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen have commented on where we have no doubt that people are scouring these documents and identifying sources and we have concerns about their welfare.
QUESTION: You said that your sources are largely human beings? What are the ones that not human beings?
MR. CROWLEY: There are technologies that play a role here. But for the State Department we rely on human sources of information. We do have a lot of satellites, though. |
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Phillip J. Crowley |
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Assistant Secretary |
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