Why don't wikileaks release all documents now?

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1. Guest2788
   

   Lets see first that, what wikileaks say about this? According to wikileaks: "The embassy cables will be released in stages over the next few months. The subject matter of these cables is of such importance, and the geographical spread so broad, that to do otherwise would not do this material justice. We owe it to the people who entrusted us with the documents to ensure that there is time for them to be written about, commented on and discussed widely in public, something that is impossible if hundreds of thousands of documents are released at once. We will therefore be releasing the documents gradually over the coming weeks and months."

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2. Guest13
   

   At the rate the cables are being released, it will take almost NINE YEARS to release them all. With a total of 251,287 cables, they would need to release about 1,400 per day to get them all out in 6 months. At present, they are dribbling out at around 77 per day. By the time all this stuff sees the light of day, no one will care anymore.

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