U.S. military network cut off from cables database

WASHINGTON | Tue Nov 30, 2010 2:58pm EST

WASHINGTON Nov 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. 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 network 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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