Although it may seem as though WikiLeaks has flooded the Web with a mind-boggling number of classified diplomatic cables, the site says it has actually published only a fraction of 1 percent of the trove of secret State Department information it has.
WikiLeaks claims to have an archive of 251,287 cables. It has published fewer than 1,000.
Julian Assange, the face and founder of the Web site, was arrested Tuesday in Britain on a sex crime case in Sweden - a case separate from WikiLeaks.
One of his attorneys, Jennifer Robinson, said that the remaining contents of the State Department trove will continue to be published "unabated as scheduled, in a very orderly fashion" in the coming months. The documents could even be released in parts throughout 2011 in conjunction with media that had advance access to WikiLeaks' documents about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, as well as the cables, said Robinson.
At least three media organizations have obtained advance copies of WikiLeaks' documents: The Guardian, The New York Times and Germany's Der Spiegel.
Though Assange has been jailed in Great Britain, where he'll remain until a court appearance December 14, WikiLeaks doesn't appear to be deterred.
On Tuesday, more than 70 cables were released online while Assange spent the night behind bars, and more are supposedly coming soon. Several hundred Web sites have popped up that appear to have copied WikiLeaks' data in order to act as "mirror sites."
Hackers have hit back at financial companies that have cut off support to WikiLeaks, and they have attacked the Swedish prosecutors' site. There's talk of a "Poison Pill," a massive mystery file that Assange has said would be released if he or WikiLeaks is hurt.
The story of WikiLeaks can feel overwhelming. Consider that the site has been making headlines since July, when it published more than 90,000 documents that showed, for the first time, a ground-level view of the war in Afghanistan.
The documents are suspected to have come from a U.S. soldier Bradley Manning.
The math just gets more intense. Add 400,000 documents WikiLeaks released in October about the Iraq war. And now this: more than a quarter-million memos U.S. diplomats have written to Washington, correspondence that they presumably thought would never see the light of day.
Some of it falls into the category of amusing; other cables are more serious.
For example, a cable made public Wednesday was sent from the consulate in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, where alcohol is banned and carnal relations strictly regulated. The cable discussed a wild party at a Saudi prince's home involving alcohol and "working girls." The cable says, "cocaine and hashish use is common in these social circles and has been seen on other occasions."
Other cables have provided insight into North Korea, revealed important information about Iran's nuclear capabilities and suggested that the State Department asked its diplomats to spy on their counterparts.
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Yes it does lead to the destruction of the world but so does everything else that stolen and extorted etc. and ends up in criminal hands. it's really not just technology you know, it's anything. theresa noelle younan ymma-iii. bad parents ended up destroying the world too. people that should not be allowed to have children or be near children. that was bad technology too.
If anyone believes that one private did this, you better guess again. This came from the White House and no where else. The military dont have White House memos and this should tell you how safe the US is with information. Get it all out, I for one want to see what all the countrys of the world are hiding.
The President of the United states is the Supreme Commander over all of the military, so what makes you think that there would not be any memos between him and the Secretary of the Army, Navy and other branches? I think you need to take your pills and go to bed.
Send the guy home. He wasn't dropping the right information. Cables was the lead. Now everyone needs to refer to cablegrams google and other search engines to get real information. there they discuss the poison pill and other but i didn't read that part yet. its really all about the telephone industry in different countries and how it's used militarily politically and overlapping criminally commercially medically etc. what i've been discussing as corruption trafficked by that system network. theresa noelle younan ymma-iii i-pic interpole galactica y-research management.
who are those two huge weight people, blonde girl and dark hair man running around doing redneck black hand activity invading privacy etc. using a red truck. i beleive they burn people in garbage cans and dog game stuff like that and worse. i can't tell if they are english or italian but i know they are doing english supremacy crime mostly. i've seen them a couple of times on t.v. and i don't know if they are in new york or detroit or if they travel interstate doing crime with patrol people letting them. theresa noelle younan ymma-iii interpole galactica i-pic y-research management
they may have done dismemberment of someone in a u.s. hotel plus they steal kids or send black types to do that. theresa noelle younan. i may have seen it as a psychic ghost film or they may be getting broadcast like nobody's business stuff going on like that thelma pedophile crime ring multi gang assault that was going on here except they had chinese partners doing crime as well.
"tell the country the facts and the country will be alright" ~ Abraham Lincoln
Did anyone, after assange's arrest, check for the '666' branded behind his ear???
What no one is asking and what they should be asking, if all this info about other countries was know why has no action been taken against them?
Can we nuke the base?
Assange is nothing more than a stolen information terrorist. There is nothing noble in what he is doing and is putting many people in many countries in harms way. The fallout of this will not reign on the US but on the people identified that are not in the US.
GOGraphic says "If this was going on during World War II we would all be Germans now!"
Actually, if this were going on during World War II, then it may have ended sooner. Then, as now, the information leaked may have helped slow the global efforts of an imperial power.
Kill this guy!
What are people talking about when they invoke the freedom of speech argument? Are they really serious? This is absolute silliness. If someone stole all the credit and banking information for the entire country, would it be ok for them to publish it for others to browse through, under the protection of freedom of speech? This is the greatest crime ever committed against the U.S. He should be hanged for his crime and those who have assisted in his actions should receive nothing less than that as well
You have no idea about the Democratic system, do you? With your kind of thinking you would be the worst Dictator if you ever had power. Thank God you don't.
All those Patriots shouting Treason should revisit Iran-Contra.
Treason is when Americans promise the Iranian Ayatollahs weapons to fight the Iraqis in exchange for not releasing the American hostages until after the election that put Reagan in power.
The Americans set Saddam up to attack Iran to nip the Revolution in the bud and contain it, so the lessor thrones in the other oil sheikdoms would survive.
What evidence is there for this treasonous deal? The Iranian are not as dumb as some would like to think. History shows they were released the same day Reagan was sworn in as President.
Wow people that think lying is wrong and should be avoided are the problem? The fact that our government has sworn to everyone – including you and me, that our diplomats are NOT spies. Wikileaks spills the beans and shows DIRECT evidence of that lie, they are the criminals? I see what you did you there. I guess we should be okay with a massive cover up of murdering civilians too? I understand why we want to hide this, however its the truth. I think thats why everyone is upset. We knew our government was lying, but we had no idea the scope. Wikileaks is showing us the scope and we dont like it so we deflect our feelings of betrayal from the real target – our military leaders and government, and focus on wikileaks's founder Assange instead. No one need die for this. Anyone calling for someone's life, should stfu.
Wikileaks didn't post the mastercard infos. It has nothing to do with that group. It was a group of hackers that are retaliating.
Bring it on down.
Assange, and his group, tossed a monkey-wrench into the globalist's machinery and the stupid Repressicants have been dog-whistled into action by the hatemongers on talk-radio and FoxNoise.
Emillio
Your English is great and you are RIGHT as well.
Harry- you are witty and had a valid point.
Others can play along too!
Long Live wikileaks
Nobody wants their family secret aired. People go to extensive trouble hiding their family pedophile, for example. When one of the molested kids speaks out, the family shuns him. My point is people who are blaming Assange are just doing what they've been doing for years...hiding the truth. this sort of behavior isn't selective. It's just who they are.