On the 28th of November 5 major newspapers and WikiLeaks simultaneously published 220 of 251,287 confidential cables of U.S. Diplomats. In a time period of several months WikiLeaks revealed Cables from 274 US embassies going back till 1966.
The cables were stolen and downloaded by the U.S. Soldier Bradley Manning. He downloaded the documents allegedly while listening to Lady Gagas song “Telephone”. He got caught by the FBI because he told the former hacker Adrian Lemo about it, who went to the police after a few days of chatting (click here for the chat protocol). The intentions of Manning remain vague. In the protocols he sounds desperate. He talks about humanistic values and and about delivering the truth, about that he wants the society to change and that he wants the public to debate about the content.
A cable is quite similar to an email, it uses even a Microsoft Outlook based system. Only difference is that it is not made for one addressee but available for other diplomatic and military staff. Who can read it depends on were it is saved (read more about how a cable works in this Slate article). The Guardian assumed in an early estimation that up to 3,000,000 Mio U.S. Government and military employees had access to the cables. Confidential looks different.
The contents of the Cables ranged from what the U.S. Diplomats think of certain leaders, corrupt companies to the spying of U.N. Leaders by U.S. Diplomats.
Click here for an interactive map of the cables
Click here for a Huffington Post gallery of named leaders
Click here for the full overview of the most important cables
Written by Leaker3
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