Wikileaks publishes remaining US diplomatic cables unredacted

WHISTLEBLOWING ORGANISATION Wikileaks has released the remainder of its cache of US diplomatic cables.

The unredacted leaks contain some pretty damning stuff, reports the Guardian, and put a lot of people at risk. This stance by the Guardian is odd, according to Wikileaks, as it was actually the newspaper that has done this and forced the organisation into revealing its hand.

"The Guardian continues to issue false statements. The nepotism in the Guardian has clearly compromised its accountability," wrote the group today as it continued to argue that while it has tried to manage the release of documents sensibly the same cannot be said of its journalistic partner.

"A Guardian journalist has negligently disclosed top secret WikiLeaks' decryption passwords to hundreds of thousands of unredacted unpublished US diplomatic cables," it wrote yesterday in an editorial that was described as 'background' to today's releases.

The organisation indicated it is planning to sue the Guardian over the leak, which saw the password for its master file appear in a book that was published last February.

"WikiLeaks has commenced pre-litigation action against the Guardian and an individual in Germany who was distributing the Guardian passwords for personal gain," added the statement as it explained that its softly softly release approach had kept states and countries on alert for the next embarrassing release.

Importantly, the staged release would also have given Wikileaks time to remove details such as the source for the leak. However, some commentators have suggested that the staging was just that, staged events designed to suit Julian Assange.

"Every day that the corrupt leadership of a country or organization knows of a pending WikiLeaks disclosure is a day spent planning how to crush revolution and reform," added Wikileaks in its statement.

"Guardian investigations editor, David Leigh, recklessly, and without gaining our approval, knowingly disclosed the decryption passwords in a book published by the Guardian. Leigh states the book was rushed forward to be written in three weeks - the rights were then sold to Hollywood."

According to the Guardian, and the other national papers that worked as Wikileaks media partners, this move is down to Julian Assange alone, and they have condemned him for it.

"We deplore the decision of WikiLeaks to publish the unredacted state department cables, which may put sources at risk," they wrote in a joint statement that was reproduced on the Guardian's report.

"Our previous dealings with WikiLeaks were on the clear basis that we would only publish cables which had been subjected to a thorough joint editing and clearance process. We will continue to defend our previous collaborative publishing endeavour. We cannot defend the needless publication of the complete data - indeed, we are united in condemning it. The decision to publish by Julian Assange was his, and his alone."

The full archive, when unpacked, amounts to a hefty 60GB of data. µ