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We asked last week what we should look for among the leaked US embassy cables and have since received thousands of suggestions – today's include Cuban healthcare, George Galloway and scientology
Welcome to the latest You ask, We search blogpost. Since this exercise started we have received suggestions in the thousands and are in the process of looking at hundreds of them.
But before we go on, two housekeeping notes. Despite what Julian Assange said in an online Q&A, there are no references to aliens in the cables. We searched for aliens and UFOs ("visitors" and "non-terrestrial officers" too, thanks, UFO-minded readers) without finding anyway. Assange may have been having fun. Second, there is nothing to suggest the 9/11 attacks were not carried out by 19 terrorists on four hijacked aeroplanes. An estimated 3m people had access to the cables pre-leak, so if there were a conspiracy in them it would need to be one that around 1% of all US citizens were in on.
But we have had many good suggestions – individuals whose names or stories we may have forgotten, or people wondering what the cables say about where they live. Not every search turns up much, however. For example, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, who resigned as Finnish PM in an Iraq-related scandal, only turns up passing mentions in briefings on Finland's politics. In cases such as these we've moved on and (when time allows) informed the person who made the suggestion.
Some are for people and places our journalists have already covered – alleged Russian arms trader Viktor Bout is one who springs to mind. Recognising that you may not know this as well as we do, teams here have made an interactive tag cloud that groups together and links to published cables and news stories by topic, such as Israel, India or banks... Continues in the link.
If you think That a statement by the Guardian Will stop speculation as to what material was leaked, I'm afraid my experience of discussions of UFOs and related issues is rather different to yours.
"However, it is worth noting that in yet-to-be-published parts of the cablegate archive there are indeed references to UFOs."
Originally posted by Jay-morris
reply to post by RUSSO
Why dont some people understand that these are cables. Not top secret documents at the very top level. It really annoys me that the hardcore et believers have used thier belief to somehow think that wiki could release earth changing ufo documents If any of the documents relate to ufo's, it will be just like the documents that have been officially released all over the world. Not evidence of ET, but evidence that ufo's are flying in our airspace, but we all know that.
So, you are going to ignore wikileaks now just because of your ET beliefs. Your not taking to account the real reason why wikileaks are doing what they are doing, and thats showing how corrupt our governments really are. Thats not important to you?
As I understand it, Wikileaks gave all the cables to four newspapers (The Guardian, Le Monde, El Pais and Der Spiegel), and The Guardian is working with The New York Times (if I'm not mistaken).
Originally posted by UFO Partisan
I also don't know that the Guardian or any other news outlet has access to everything Wikileaks is holding.
But before we go on, two housekeeping notes. Despite what Julian Assange said in an online Q&A, there are no references to aliens in the cables. We searched for aliens and UFOs ("visitors" and "non-terrestrial officers" too, thanks, UFO-minded readers) without finding anyway. Assange may have been having fun. Second, there is nothing to suggest the 9/11 attacks were not carried out by 19 terrorists on four hijacked aeroplanes. An estimated 3m people had access to the cables pre-leak, so if there were a conspiracy in them it would need to be one that around 1% of all US citizens were in on.
Originally posted by ArMaP
As I understand it, Wikileaks gave all the cables to four newspapers (The Guardian, Le Monde, El Pais and Der Spiegel), and The Guardian is working with The New York Times (if I'm not mistaken).
That's why the news appear first on the newspapers and then are published by Wikileaks, the newspapers are the ones deciding the order by which the cables are released.
I also think that they are the ones removing some names from the cables, I have seen several in which some names were replaced by "XXXXXXXX".
Originally posted by RUSSO
reply to post by IsaacKoi
If you think That a statement by the Guardian Will stop speculation as to what material was leaked, I'm afraid my experience of discussions of UFOs and related issues is rather different to yours.
I do not understand the difference because Assange said he had documents, but the staff that has access to all documents were unable to find anything related to the topic. Please understand, no one else in this world wanted more than I that these leaked documents show up, but it seems that everything was a great ...., I let you choose the right word.
What I want is to express my disappointment with Assange by the expectations about the subject thet he created.
All the best Too.