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U.S. Safer From NBC Attack

By Colin Clark on Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

U.S. Safer From NBC Attack

The cascade of State Department cables posted by WikiLeaks offers a cautionary tale but it’s “too early to tell” how it may affect the conduct of intelligence activities, the nation’s top counterterrorism official said today. Michael Leiter, head of the National Counterterrorism Center, said the release of huge quantities of sensitive and classified documents “has certainly driven members of the intelligence community to reexamine information sharing….” and it “undermines U.S. national security.”