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A heavily redacted Department of Defense report concludes that documents leaked to WikiLeaks had no "significant strategic impact" on the war in Afghanistan and "[had] no direct personal impact on current and former senior US leadership in Iraq":
The publication of hundreds of thousands of secret US documents leaked by the Army soldier Chelsea Manning in 2010 had no strategic impact on the American war efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, a newly released Pentagon analysis concluded.
The main finding of the Department of Defense report, written a year after the breach, was that Manning's uploading of more than 700,000 secret files to the open information organization WikiLeaks had no significant strategic effect on the US war efforts.
The belated publication of the analysis gives the lie to the official line maintained over several years that the leak had caused serious harm to US national security.
[...] The conclusions are contained in the final report of the information review task force that the DoD set up in the wake of the Manning leaks to look into their impact in the hope of mitigating any damage. The report was obtained by BuzzFeed's investigative reporter Jason Leopold under freedom of information laws.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 22 2017, @01:58PM
You're shitting me. The primary objection to this had nothing to do with national security, it was to do with the thousands of Afghani informers who were publicly outed in the documents. That it also made it a cakewalk for anybody on earth to get a day-to-day view of our ongoing military operations was just a footnote in this day and age. National security never came into it; more of a buzzword for those who get a hard-on at the sight of Dick Cheney's bald head.