One Military Network Cut Off From Cables -- Yahoo News/Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The State Department has cut off a U.S. military computer network from its database of diplomatic cables after WikiLeaks obtained more than 250,000 such cables, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the system was the U.S. military's Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, known as SIPRNet, believed to have been the ultimate source for the cables obtained by the whistleblower website.
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