Wikileaks: Ash Watches 3.5 hours of CSPAN So You Don't Have To.

CAWWW!!!

With all the "Unamerican activities dag-nabbit!" and the "someone should assassinate that Assange varmint", the US Government was starting to look like Yosemite Sam. So instead of spinning their wheels ad nauseum, they decided they should probably try and have an intelligent discussion about what laws they're going to use to fight it--and in the spirit of transparency, put it in cable and the internet!

The American House Judiciary Committee had a hearing on Wikileaks yesterday--and you can watch it too!
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Legaland
or
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20101216/index.htm

But I doubt you want to, because it's amazingly, brutally dull. And long. And it's hard to listen to.
If you want the play-by-play notes, I'm your girl--though I reserve the right to editorialize. Also for my analysis to fall apart near the end, while my brain turns to mush by the repetition of the pronunciation of "Wikuhleaks".

Get to the goods after the jump.

WikiLeaked: Foreign Policy decodes the cables, without the crisis

this awesome photo from icanhazcheezburger.com. Clearly.

Tired of hearing about three of the four arms of Cablegate?

Had enough of Julian Assange and Anonymous vs The Man and the Great "Espionage" Wikileaks Ethics question, and just want to know wtf everyone's worried about getting out in the first place?


Foreign Policy Magazine (which has its moments of awesome) has you covered with its WikiLeaked sub-zine.

Extra-awesome to all my Africa-related friends: last night's cables mostly had to do with the continent, so most of the analysis right now does too!