Best thing I've read in the commentary on The Guardian
"The issue is not one of \"State Secrets\" being disclosed to foreign governments, but the far bigger problem of \"EMPIRE secrets\" being clearly seen by Americans at home.
It seems to me that all the tremendous angst, consternation, and difficulty of the US in messaging, dealing and explaining what is coming out from Wikileaks really does not have anything to do concerns about the normal \"roughness', candor, or embarrassment of explaining the supposed foreign 'damage' of how normal diplomacy works, but rather the shock of American citizens at home seeing how an EMPIRE conducts global policy.
If the leaked information contains what I strongly think that it will clearly reveal, the real danger that 'our' (sic) government is fearing is that of how average American citizens will react to seeing that their own supposed government is acting like an EMPIRE with the rest of the world ---- and that the American people will realize that they have been being lied to for decades, and that their government, far from acting like a normal democracy (or democratic republic) has been acting like an Empire and IS an Empire.
That's the real threat that has all of the politicians from both 'Vichy' parties, and their professional bureaucratic and technocratic underlings, and more importantly the ruling-elite of this previously well hidden global corporate/financial/militarist EMPIRE posing as the nation called America nervous as whores in church ---- that the people will now see them as phonies, shills, pimps, and treasonous whores for an Empire whose disguise is now coming off."