WikiLeaks has published 120,000 diplomatic cables, almost all unredacted, in the last week. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images
Leak at WikiLeaks: A Dispatch Disaster in Six Acts -- Spiegel Online
Some 250,000 diplomatic dispatches from the US State Department have accidentally been made completely public. The files include the names of informants who now must fear for their lives. It is the result of a series of blunders by WikiLeaks and its supporters.
In the end, all the efforts at confidentiality came to naught. Everyone who knows a bit about computers can now have a look into the 250,000 US diplomatic dispatches that WikiLeaks made available to select news outlets late last year. All of them. What's more, they are the unedited, unredacted versions complete with the names of US diplomats' informants -- sensitive names from Iran, China, Afghanistan, the Arab world and elsewhere.
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My Comment: Many of the revelations that are coming are explosive. IBTimes has a small summary of some of them, but the ones that have caught my attention so far are .... U.S. troops executed Iraqi children in 2006 raid, and UN peacekeepers traded food for sex.
While Wikileaks is now threatening to release all unredacted cables, the fact is that much of this is (apparently) now available online.
Update: All WikiLeaks' secret US cables are on BitTorrent in full -- Register
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