US State Department Pulls the Plug on Classified Files

In Washington, the State Department severed its computer files from the government’s classified network, officials said, AP reports.

 

By temporarily pulling the plug, the US significantly reduced the number of government employees who can read important diplomatic messages. It was an extraordinary hunkering down, prompted by the disclosure of hundreds of thousands of those messages this week by WikiLeaks, the self-styled whistleblower organization.