WikiLeaks releases US embassy cables

The release of over 2,50,000 secret cables exchanged by US embassy on Sunday by WikiLeaks has created tremors across the world. The cables showed us how the embassies involved in background lobbying and their hidden agendas. Some of the highlights of the leaks are

• Fears in Washington and London over the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program. In May 2009, Ambassador Anne W. Patterson reported that Pakistan was refusing to schedule a visit by American technical experts because, as a Pakistani official said, “if the local media got word of the fuel removal, ‘they certainly would portray it as the United States taking Pakistan’s nuclear weapons,’ he argued.”
• American and South Korean officials have discussed the prospects for a unified Korea, should the North’s economic troubles and political transition lead the state to implode.
• Corruption within the Afghan government, with concerns heightened when a senior official was found to be carrying more than $50m in cash on a foreign trip.
• US officials being instructed to spy on the UN's leadership by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
•  A global computer hacking effort: China’s Politburo directed the intrusion into Google’s computer systems in that country, a Chinese contact told the American Embassy in Beijing in January, one cable reported. The Google hacking was part of a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage carried out by government operatives, private security experts and Internet outlaws recruited by the Chinese government. They have broken into American government computers and those of Western allies, the Dalai Lama and American businesses since 2002, cables said.
• Bargaining to empty the Guantanamo Bay prison camp - including Slovenian diplomats being told to take in a freed prisoner if they wanted to secure a meeting with President Barack Obama.

WikiLeaks  is an international non-profit media organization that publishes submissions of otherwise unavailable documents from anonymous sources and leaks. They have earlier released Afghan war diary and Iraq war logs. Julian Assange is believed to be the founder and spokesperson of the WikiLeaks though there is no official word on it. I wonder what would happen to him if he was an Indian and released dozens of classified documents of Indian politicians. 

I like their tagline "Courage is contagious". 

FYI: In India there have been eight murders and 20 serious attacks on RTI activists in the last one year alone.

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