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If by "a few" you mean "sixteen", sure. Joel Send a noteboard - 01/02/2011 07:55:08 PM
They've done stuff with Peru, Kenya, Iran, and more.

I mean, we're the biggest superpower on Earth, and we tend to be involved in a lot of things, and project our power to help US interests. If you have a site devoted to whistleblowing, of COURSE the US is going to come up eventually.


I just think it's silly to take it personally, as if Wikileaks is an arrow launched directly at the heart of America.

That's how many clicks it took me to get something about a government other than the US. Two others gave something about the UN (beginning with the the fourth or fifth try) and another something about an African oil company, so a total of 20% of the first 15 leaks were about something other than the US. Several of the US stories came up more than once before I found something about another government. Oh, and I think there was one more about Wikileaks giving more coverage of any war in history, which isn't exactly earth shattering, just more of the self congratulatory BS so many find so nauseating. Then, finally, on the sixteenth try, "WikiLeaks revealed how Iran devised suicide weaponry for Al-Qaeda use in Iraq". Hardly the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "Wikileaks" and "Iraq" is it? Just for fun I clicked it another half a dozen times a second ago and got the same story about overthrowing Kenyan dictators twice, one about Wikileaks forcing EU policy, and seven stories about the US that I'd already seen on there at least once.

I'd say the US comes up a bit more often than "eventually" (like, 76% of the time, with another 4% being ads for Wikileaks).
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Dude, you had me until the last sentence - 30/01/2011 09:42:59 PM 143 Views
They do seem to have a strong focus on the US, it seems to me. - 30/01/2011 11:28:14 PM 113 Views
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Which is why I wonder if they may have created him. - 31/01/2011 02:20:01 AM 109 Views
...you know Wikileaks existed before this whole US thing, right? - 31/01/2011 03:50:50 AM 124 Views
If by "a few" you mean "sixteen", sure. - 01/02/2011 07:55:08 PM 116 Views
Guess it's no longer getting people killed for the sake of sliming the US and saying, "LOOK AT ME!" - 30/01/2011 11:29:54 PM 119 Views
Re: - 31/01/2011 02:03:28 AM 120 Views
Sounds like we're on the same page here. - 31/01/2011 02:25:49 AM 117 Views

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