What in the world is wikileaks refering to when they say “US Cables”?
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/12/31/106037/wikileaks-assange-2000-sites-now.html
Are you asking what cables are? If so, they’re basically diplomatic phone calls (to put it simply) between two countries’ bureaucrats.
The cables they’ve been publishing for a month have all been United States diplomatic cables. This particular story is talking about the encrypted ‘insurance’ file consisting of every unredacted cable Manning gave them, the password to which Assange has set to be leaked should something happen to him.
That’s amazing. I hadn’t heard of that. This situation is becoming more and more like a movie every day. I love it. I’ll never have to rent/buy movies again.
“Are you asking what cables are? If so, they’re basically diplomatic phone calls (to put it simply) between two countries’ bureaucrats.”
yes…thats what I was asking…
so is he releasing transcriptions of these phone calls? or actual recordings of them?
You could just Google this stuff.
They’re not actually verbal phone calls. That was just my easy way of explaining it. It’s more like texting but a complex version of texting.
Telegrams.
i.e. nothing special, just funny stuff.
I think we are just talking about emails here. The word cables is a goofy 19th century term that survives to inflate their importance.
I read a bunch of them and they read like NYT articles - or summaries of NPR. Mostly boring and stupid.
“The word cables is a goofy 19th century term that survives to inflate their importance.”
that is exactly what i was wondering…thank you.