The latest document dump from whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks reveals it was the CIA, not the State Department, who ordered the information "wishlist" of data to be gathered on high ranking members of the United Nations.

The Guardian, which first published the report and is one of the five newspapers that was given access to the documents, wrote,"The disclosure comes as new information emerged about Washington's intelligence gathering on foreign diplomats, including surveillance of the telephone and internet use of Iranian and Chinese diplomats."

The claws had come out against Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who was accused of having an interest in wiretapping that rivaled Nixon's.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Time magazine in a Skype interview on Tuesday, "She should resign if it can be shown that she was responsible for ordering U.S. diplomatic figures to engage in espionage in the United Nations, in violation of the international covenants to which the U.S. has signed up. Yes, she should resign over that."

In the interview, Time's Managing Editor Richard Stengel said Clinton was looking like "the fall guy."

Clinton has been at the forefront of the U.S. response to WikiLeaks, insisting it's an "attack on the international community."

The Guardian notes, "US state department spokesman PJ Crowley, in interviews since the release, has tried to deflect criticism by repeatedly hinting that although the cables were signed by secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, and her predecessor, Condoleezza Rice, they originated with another agency. But he refused to identify it."

The "intelligence shopping list" is made annually by the human intelligence manager, a position created in 2005 by the Bush adminitration to amp up intelligence coordination in a post-9/11 world.

The Humint establishes the year's priorities and sends them to the state department that then writes the cables.

"The list of priorities, though co-ordinated by the manager of Humanint, is drawn up with input from all US intelligence agencies, including intelligence analysts at the state department. The US has been keen to stress that its diplomats are not acting as spies, a label that could endanger their lives," The Guardian reports.

Earlier in the week, Slate columnist Jack Shafer argued that Clinton was guilty of worse offenses than predecessor Condoleezza Rice who also signed orders issuing spying on UN officials like Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Why? Because of the evidence.

"What makes Clinton's sleuthing unique is the paper trail that documents her spying-on-their-diplomats-with-our-diplomat orders, a paper trail that is now being splashed around the world on the Web and printed in top newspapers. No matter what sort of noises Clinton makes about how the disclosures are 'an attack on America' and 'the international community,' as she did today, she's become the issue."

Shafer notes, "A secret cable from April 2009 that went out under Clinton's name instructed State Department officials to collect the "biometric data," including "fingerprints, facial images, DNA, and iris scans," of African leaders. Another secret cable directed American diplomats posted around the world, including the United Nations, to obtain passwords, personal encryption keys, credit card numbers, frequent flyer account numbers, and other data connected to diplomats. As the Guardian puts it, the cables "reveal how the US uses its embassies as part of a global espionage network."