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Under cover of off the record meetings with top national security officials, the NYT collaborated with the government, at the least on damage control, if not their investigation of WikiLeaks. The Guardian, by contrast, was unwilling to do more than warn State what general topics they’d cover on a day to day basis.
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Just another example how the "free press" is no longer, very much by their own choosing. I believe we saw that before the balloon went up in Iraq.
And another point that Marcy touches on is the fact Bradley Manning is their only suspect in the leaks:
... Geoff Morrell’s press conference last week made it clear that they still only consider Bradley Manning a person of interest in the leak of the larger dump, meaning that if he leaked them, they haven’t identified how he did so ...
When they know there's someone else (link NSFW) out there too. How? Document security:
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Now we get to the good part. The feds have made it clear that they are looking for other leakers (aside from BM). Meatballs now know why.
Not all the State Dept cables obtained by WikiL bear the SIPDIS header tag.
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I'd even suppose there are more than one. Whether we'll see anything Earthshaking in American papers is yet to be seen (maybe McClatchy) but I'm sure the rest of them will "cooperate" with the US government in fear of reprisal or some other such motivation. We'll have to look to the foreign press to learn anything of substance, probably, and the corporate news media won't touch it at all unless they're trying to skewer Assange.
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