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WikiLeaks: That Was 1% of Our Cables

But it's unclear if the best is yet to come

By Polly Davis Doig,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 23, 2011 12:50 PM CST

(Newser) – WikiLeaks has released 2,628 diplomatic cables that came from the US State Department, or a meager 1% of the 251,287 in its possession, despite Julian Assange's repeated assurances to speed their release. But what's unclear, notes the AP, is whether the most salacious revelations have already been released, or if WikiLeaks and its so-called media partners have had a chance to go through the enormous vault. Regardless, Assange says he's getting new leaks all the time.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives for a news conference with former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer, not seen, at the Frontline Club in London, Monday Jan. 17, 2011. Rudolf Elmer blew the whistle on the conduct of Julius Baer Bank in the Cayman Islands for which he is set to stand...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives for a news conference with former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer, not seen, at the Frontline Club in London, Monday Jan. 17, 2011. Rudolf Elmer blew the whistle on...   (Lefteris Pitarakis)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, listens to a reporter's question during a joint news conference at the Frontline Club in London, Monday Jan. 17, 2011.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, listens to a reporter's question during a joint news conference at the Frontline Club in London, Monday Jan. 17, 2011.   (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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kokuaguy
Jan 25, 2011 1:27 AM CST
"If an American citizen, convicted of no crime and innocent until proven guilty, can be held under such conditions arbitrarily for half a year, essentially softened up and tortured as a means of extracting information from him, then the Republic is in extreme danger. Indeed, it may be that John Yoo, Karl Rove, Richard Bruce Cheney, and George W. Bush are already winning in their war on civil liberties in favor of a monarchical national security state. President Obama, has made some important advances in abolishing torture and restoring some civil liberties, but it is a mixed picture, as the ACLU explained just a few days ago. He has a duty to intervene to stop the abuse of Pfc. Manning. If Manning has broken the law, he will be tried and convicted and punished in accordance with the law. In the meantime, as long as he is being treated as though he were at Guantanamo, all of us are." JUAN COLE
williambaranowski
Jan 23, 2011 3:20 PM CST
Oh, look who's clawing his way back to the surface of relevance from the depths of "so last week."
Coolface
Jan 23, 2011 3:13 PM CST
Julian Assange has a god complex. Nothing to see here folks
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