2010-06-11

Could Wikileaks shake the market?

Pentagon Manhunt
“Hillary Clinton and several thousand diplomats around the world are going to have a heart attack when they wake up one morning and find an entire repository of classified foreign policy is available,” Manning wrote of the diplomatic cables, according to Wired.

Wikileaks has not confirmed that Manning is a source of any information posted on the site. “We do not know if Mr. Manning is our source, but the U.S. military is claiming he is, so we will defend him,” Wikileaks said in another Twitter message.
Read the article. There's no way of knowing what's in the cables or whether they'll even be released, but with tensions around the world very high, any sort of negative surprise will be unwelcome with investors.

2010/06/19 Update: The most current news is not favorable for the U.S. military, but it doesn't sound as if a leak of private diplomatic communications is on the way.
WikiLeaks Preparing to Release Video of Alleged U.S. 'Massacre' in Afghanistan

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