The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Dr. Peter Venkman et al. Help Explain the Potential Danger of Wikileaks

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    Well, you've gotta give 'em props in the humor department.


    Hey-o!


    I would like to point out a couple things from your link,

    My bold:

    • 15, 652 secret
    • 101,748 confidential
    • 133,887 unclassified

    So I figurei it's really only 117,400 that aren't a snooze for most folk.

    Run-of-the-mill State Dept. publications and correspondence--not exactly hot stuff, except for freaks like me into geopolitics and the new world order (yeah, there is one conspiracy theorists, unfortunate for y'all it's just that it's not the USSR vs. the US, nothing more.)

    But stamp it confidential or secret and you've got a decent-size audience!

    (For one example, I note how nobody seems to care about Lara Rozen's blogging since the Iraq war lost its cachet in the blogophere--when it was a hot and heavy political topic, she used to be referenced all the time.)

    Then there's this

    # Ankara, Turkey had most cables coming from it –7,918

    # From Secretary of State office - 8,017

    Wassup with Ankara being prolific? Probably it's not. Seems to me it points a finger at that office as to being helpful to wikileaks, hence a large proporiton of the dump's docs come from there.


    I would be very curious to read an analysis of the cables between embassy and DoS, especially betweeen Administrations, especially between which Party was in the White House and which controlled Congress.