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In reply to the discussion: So that's what Assange has been doing inside the embassy! WikiLeaks releases 1.7m US diplomatic and [View all]Socal31
(2,484 posts)2. Misleading headline according to this paragraph buried in the article:
"The collection published today has not been leaked, but Mr Assange said WikiLeaks had been working for the past year to analyse and assess a vast amount of data held at the U.S. national archives before releasing it in a searchable form.
Mr Assange said WikiLeaks had developed sophisticated technical systems to deal with complex and voluminous data.
Top secret documents were not available, while some others were lost or irreversibly corrupted for periods including December 1975 and March and June 1976, said Mr Assange"
Wikidatacondensing just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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So that's what Assange has been doing inside the embassy! WikiLeaks releases 1.7m US diplomatic and [View all]
Paul E Ester
Apr 2013
OP
Actually I wouldnt hesitate to bet that some of it was classified to protect sources as well as
cstanleytech
Apr 2013
#16
Here, it's not even dumping: all these documents were already available from the US government,
struggle4progress
Apr 2013
#19
I'm sure Kissinger Associates are delighted at your efforts to downplay this. Here's their number.
leveymg
Apr 2013
#24
I'm sure Kissinger's clients are well-aware of Kissinger's power-based real-politik approach,
struggle4progress
Apr 2013
#27
On his clients and their ethics, we surely agree. As for the Nat'l Security Archive at GWU, I've
leveymg
Apr 2013
#34
Congratulations! Your efforts to get the dupe thread frozen kicked this one into the top 25!
leveymg
Apr 2013
#26
Yeah, I didn't want to see 1.7 million new LBN threads on forty-year-old long-available
struggle4progress
Apr 2013
#28
He may not have broken any law this time, but it was a newsworthy public service anyway. eom
leveymg
Apr 2013
#30
Maybe or maybe not, but IMO in any case not every old cable in his "release" becomes LBN thereby
struggle4progress
Apr 2013
#31
Meanwhile, journalists across the world are combing through names of overseas tax evaders...
Comrade_McKenzie
Apr 2013
#23