Entitled “What If Foreigners See the United States as an ‘Exporter of Terrorism’?,” the paper cites Pakistani American David Headley, among others, to make its case that the nation is a terrorism exporter. Headley pleaded guilty this year to conducting surveillance in support of the 2008 Lashkar-i-Taiba attacks in Mumbai, which killed more than 160 people.
The militant group facilitated his movement between the United States, Pakistan and India, the agency paper said.
While the paper briefly notes that some American citizens have been implicated in recent terror plots overseas (a subject declassified which was examined at far greater length last spring), it also notes that the US in the past has been a home for terrorists of other ethnicities, including Jewish extremists and the Irish Republican Army.
As WikiLeaks disclosures go, this paper pales in comparison to the organization’s recent releases. Last month the group published 76,000 classified US military records and field reports on the war in Afghanistan.
That disclosure prompted criticism that the information put US troops and Afghan informants at risk, along with demands from the Pentagon that the documents be returned.
WikiLeaks announced that it is still planning to release 15,000 more Afghan war records that it has been reviewing to redact names and other information that could cause harm.
But here in the US, media folk are under-impressed.  Newsweek magazine published on Wednesday:  “Have the activists behind WikiLeaks—and in particular the website’s founder, Julian Assange—become intoxicated by their own myth?”
“By granting only the German magazine, London’s The Guardian, and The New York Times advance access to its stash of Afghan war reports, WikiLeaks and Assange ensured that the material made a big international news splash, even if experts downplayed its significance,” noted Newsweek, predicting that Wikileaks and Assange will “ultimately destroyed, by their overindulgence in self-righteousness and hype.”
The Atlantic was equally unimpressed, in an article entitled:  “Wikile ...Yawn ... CIA SECRET Paper Is a Snoozer,” it writes:  “Wikileaks has posted a SECRET/NOFORN document from the Central Intelligence Agency’s Red Cell analytic division explaining what might happen if it becomes widely known that America has produced its fair share of terrorists and exports them (not intentionally) to places like Somalia and Yemen. It’s kind of... boring, to be sure, and it’s not clear why it would need to be classified in the first place.”
“This is not exactly a blockbuster paper,” a US official told Atlantic. Which they translate to mean:  “This is one of those analytic products that only a few people will read and others will throw into a drawer somewhere. It’s probably not something that ought to be classified to begin with.”