Wikileaks - the truth kills?

In the 1960's the cause of the Vietnam War was undermined considerably by the on-the-spot television coverage of the devastation by American forces (and only scant mention of the Viet Cong reprisals).

Now the modern variation has emerged from the Internet. Many of the leaks are from past exchanges, but ones that still very much affect the present international climate, and the slightest indiscretion could tip the balance dangerously and wreak havoc with diplomacy

I'm all for getting (some of) this information out, but there are things that people say and things that people do. Spilling the beans like this may lead the one inexorably to result in the Other.