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Diplomatic cables that embarrassed the u.s. government. >> because manning and wikileaks have become so fa nous, there's no doubt perceptions have been changed. there's no doubt people heard of more specific things than on the other hand. a lot of this kind of information was in the public debate. >> reporter: for example, michael o'halon says black water killed incident iraqis in a baghdad square. his point is before manning, americans already knew their leaders made critical mistakes in these wars and steps had to be taken to correct them. >> julian assange and other supporters of manning sa...

Has denied this claim. so where does all this go from here? >> well, it's going to be a he said/she said, it seems. look, fox news and the republicans and chairman issa have an agenda. one is to embarrass the president. and two, clearly, it seems it's to embarrass former secretary of state hillary clinton. and julian laid out the case better than anybody could about why this isn't really going to go anywhere. and why this is clearly yet another opportunity for darrell issa to try to, i should say, embarrass the president, embarrass secretary clinton. >> julian, can you tell me what the white h...

The post-assad syria is what everyone is most concerned about. and that is what has led to the paralysis now. as michael was just saying. >> i don't hear that being rehearsed by republican politicians demanding action from the administration. they don't seem to be talking about post-assad. they're talking about doing something now because the red line has been crossed. >> well, that's certainly the republican calculation. i think it's also the question is you can't start thinking about the day after without thinking about today. and i think they're arguing about today, the rebels are arguing a...