wikileaks

Wikileaks is the publishing of 251,287 leaked United States documents which is the largest set of confidential documents to ever be released to the public. These documents will give the an insight on the U.S. governments foregin activities. The cables which date from 1966 up until the end of February 2010. These contain confidential communications between 274 embassies in countries throughout the world and the State  15,652 of the cables are classified Secret. The embassy cables will be released in stages over the next few months. The subject matter of these cables is of such importance, and the geographical spread so broad, that to do otherwise would not make this material justice. The size of these released confidential files is 7 times the Iraq war logs the previous largest release of confidential documents to the world. I think it is an illegal publication of sensitive informatin