Quote from PocketChange:
Unfortunately these leaks will give the feds a reason to spend a trillion dollars to implement laws and technology to take control over the internet and digital information under the facade of homeland security.
Which is perhaps why the leaks were allowed to reach the public in the first place! This really could have been their plan all along.
Step 1) Allow some relatively minor 'secret' government documents to be leaked on the net. The total volume of materials deliberately allowed to be leaked is massive, but the true impact of their contents is minimal.
Step 2) Aggressively seize control of the net in the name of 'security', crushing the people's one last bastion of freedom.