Wikileaks releases US confidential diplomatic information.

The Wikileaks whistleblower website which got prominence earlier this year by publishing confidential information regarding the military activities of the US in Afghanistan and Iraq has disclosed  a large number of diplomatic cables from different US embassies around the world.

5 major media outlets, the New York Times, the Guardian, El País, Le Monde and Der Spiegel had exclusive access to the files to analyse and publish the data.

While wikileaks has possession of more than a quarter million cables, only a handful of them have been released so far and has promised to realease most of the data slowly in the forthcoming months. Repotedly around 15000 of these documents are tagged "secret" by the US embassies.

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