This can still have an important effect. > Most of the cables that have come to light so far have not provided new information. It was no great secret that Lib

This can still have an important effect. > Most of the cables that have come to light so far have not provided new information. It was no great secret that Libya had probably put pressure on the UK over the Megrahi release, that the US was doing strikes in Yemen etc, even if no one was prepared to confirm this in public. But if this was reported by the US government - and then pushed into the mainstream of public debate by journalists for highly respected news organizations, it became common knowledge that could not easily be ignored. Not only did everyone know it - everyone knew that everyone else knew it too. This explains Rachman's paradox - why apparently banal revelations can have very important political consequences. http://www.themonkeycage.org/2010/12/wikileaks_and_the_difference_b.html http://www.themonkeycage.org/2010/12/wikileaks_and_the_diffe...