WikiLeaks

Here are a few links on the WikiLeaks stories I collected.

First is a list of various Visualizations and the Infographics collected by information aesthetics

David Axe reports WikiLeaked Cable Confirms U.S.’ Secret Somalia Op. "It was an off-hand compliment during a January 2007 dinner meeting between Abu Dhabi crown prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, plus staff, and then-U.S. Central Commander boss General John Abizaid. But Al Nayhan’s jocular praise, as reported in WikiLeaks’ trove of leaked diplomatic cables, is a rare admission that the United States played a central role in the disastrous December 2006 Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, a move that ultimately emboldened the very Islamic extremists the U.S. and Ethiopia had hoped to squash."

And from digby, Bipartisan Cover-up. "These cables reveal a large-scale, closely coordinated effort by the State Department to obstruct these [Spanish] criminal investigations..."