"You don't want to piss off the State Department. They can make things very difficult you in the future." That is the real problem here. Even though the SD can

"You don't want to piss off the State Department. They can make things very difficult you in the future." That is the real problem here. Even though the SD can't, or hasn't yet figured out how to charge Wikileaks with a criminal offense, they wield their power as a bullying tactic to get what they want. "Comply, or else ..." is an abuse of power and is exactly what wikileaks was set up to expose in the first place. Even if the SD does succeed in trouncing wikileaks into oblivion, that very act serves to expose how corrupt governments can be.