Wikileaks: 260,000 embassy cables in the wild

Oh please let this be true:

Adrian Lamo, a former US hacker turned journalist who had been conversing with Manning online and later gave up his name to the authorities, said he also claimed to have handed 260,000 classified US embassy messages to Wikileaks.

According to Mr Lamo, Manning said the documents showed "almost-criminal political back dealings" made by US embassies in the Middle East which, if true, would cause enormous embarrassment to key allies in a notoriously volatile area of the world. Mr Lamo claims Manning said that "Hillary Clinton and several thousand diplomats around the world are going to have a heart attack when they wake up one morning, and find an entire repository of classified foreign policy is available, in searchable format, to the public".

If Wikileaks publish this, I promise to spend the summer combing through these documents and getting other analysts to do likewise!

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[David]

Unfortunately, somewhere on WikiLeaks twitter feed they said that they didn't have any knowledge of bein in possession of the cables.