Reactions to the United States diplomatic cables leak

The whistle-blowing group Wikileaks says it is suspending its publication of classified files due to financial problems.

In the run up to the arrest of Julian Assange, large companies, including Amazon, Visa and Paypal, refused to continue doing business with WikiLeaks, saying the site and its staff had violated various terms of service. Being dropped has meant WikiLeaks has had to change its online domain name, source its documents from a different […]

One of the world’s most wanted men is seen as a hero and a villian, depending who you talk to. Many in the United States consider him a traitor, even though he is not a U.S. citizen. So how does Assange’s native land feel about him? With help from our partners the BBC, we listen […]

Today, with the help of Andy Lehren from The New York Times, we’ll find out what the diplomatic communiques said involving Russia, and its Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin. It’s not an entirely pretty picture.

As journalists dig through some 250,000 documents released by Wikileaks for the details, big-picture questions abound. We’ve been asking listeners: Is the Wikileaks documents’ release anti-American? You had a lot to say on the subject.