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A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats.
Some of the cables, made available to The New York Times and several other news organizations, were written as recently as late February,revealing the Obama administration’s exchanges over crises and conflicts. The material was originally obtained by WikiLeaks,
an organization devoted to revealing secret documents. WikiLeaks intends to make the archive public on its Web site in batches, beginningSunday.The anticipated disclosure of the cables is already sending shudders through the diplomatic establishment, and could conceivably strain relations with some countries, influencing international affairs in ways that are impossible to predict.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and American ambassadors around the world have been contacting foreign officials in recent days to alert them to the expected disclosures. A statement from the White House on Sunday said: “We condemn in the strongest terms the unauthorized disclosure of classified documents and sensitive national security information.”
Allahpundit over at Hot Air has a good summary of the good stuff from WikiLeaks since their servers appear to be down.
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