Okay this huge WikiLeaks story that is breaking right now is ridiculously amazing (from a journalistic standpoint). The Guardian and NY Times are running front page stories in conjunction with the release of the documents, and there’s even a pretty great map of some of the bigger events discussed.

I’d have more to write about it, but I think Julian Assange, who spoke recently at TED, covers most of it on his own:

All of this is so fucking awesome. (Except the fact that it’s all happening because we’re still in these ridiculous conflicts.) The only bad part is that now the Obama administration is going to have to answer for all of these documents, which are all between 2004 and January 2009 before the new Afghanistan strategy was crafted. That being said, war is war and it was his call to stay there. I just wish there was a retroactive policy where the Bush policy advisers would have to answer for some of this shit.

Also that TED talk is pretty great. “Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.”