The goal if Wikileaks is not to make the US Government look silly or appear to have lied. It's simply to make it harder for it to keep secrets ... any secrets.

The goal if Wikileaks is not to make the US Government look silly or appear to have lied. It's simply to make it harder for it to keep secrets ... any secrets. Don't forget that with the Afghan/Iraq war logs we learned that much of what is being kept secret is simply for propaganda reasons, not for the security reasons claimed by the government.