Dylan Welch and Ben Grubb
September 2, 2011
THE entire unedited collection of diplomatic cables held by WikiLeaks has been leaked on the internet, in what is a disaster for the United States and a damaging blow to the whistleblowing website.Continued at the link: Wiki's raw files leaked on webYesterday, the file and the password became known on the internet and in an online frenzy the entire cable database was made public.
This is a disaster for the US because the cables are, unlike those published by WikiLeaks and its media partners, unedited and contain the names of diplomatic sources, sensitive information and even identifies intelligence officers.