The long-term fallout of the Wikileaks disclosure is turning up already. Some foreign governments appear to be pulling back already. Col. Dave Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman, says “We have gotten indications that there is at least some change in how individuals and governments cooperate with us, and share information,” Lapan repeated the concern that would-be informants or established intelligence sources might not be coming forward out of fear they could be exposed, or that governments might become more “circumspect with the information they share.”

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