Assange has requested political asylum & is in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London

[sabrina 1]

225. Actually, cablegate was only a disaster for anyone who was involved with

supporting dictators, or with lying to the public, or with admitting to knowing about corruption but choosing to ignore it for political reasons, or with anyone from the US State Dept ordering the illegal spying on member states at the UN.

Iow, we learned an awful lot about what our government does with our tax dollars, some of it was not bad, but a lot of it was pretty revealing and covered both political parties. What we learned also is that the US does not respect human rights, despite their public pretense of doing so. Iow, we know now how far both Parties will go to protect war criminals. As citizens, this is vital information, it explains why there were no prosecutions of war crimes here. We no longer have to guess, or wonder 'when will the rule of law be applied'. Those cables made it clear that the US does not have any interest in prosecuting its own war criminals, while going after others.

But not just the US. We learned about corruption in India, fixing of votes eg, which had been suspected, but was finally confirmed. That helped clean up India's corrupt government, or at least start the process.

Every country in the world was represented in those cables, corruption in governments was revealed, or confirmed, as in Tunisia, Nigeria, Uganda and the dealings of the Western nations with their 'allies', many of them dictators, as in Uzbekistan.

Much good came from those revelations as corrupt governments scrambled to try to stay in power, failing in some cases such as Tunisia. The new president of Tunisia recently thanked Assange for helping to rid their country of their corrupt dictatorship. He himself a Human Rights activist who was imprisoned and tortured under that corrupt regime.

So to say they were a disaster, only for anyone who anything to hide. We the people pay for the diplomatic services and have a right to know what and who they are dealing with.

While the cables were pretty much not covered by our cowardly media here, in other parts of the world they were viewed as extremely important news and are still exposing facts about many countries around the world.

If a Government is operating honestly, they had nothing much to worry about with the release of those cables.