The Iraq War Logs

So this is literally breaking as I type this, and I know you all aren't as obsessed with media consumption as I am, but something extremely significant is happening right now.

As you may or may not know, Wikileaks has been ramping up to unleash something around 400,000 leaked and previously classified dox on the Iraq war (unsurprisingly, the largest document leak in US military history). Major news outlets around the world including the New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Al Jazeera (links after the jump) and others have had complete access to all the documents for 10 weeks under condition of embargo until about 30 minutes ago. Here's the exciting part: simultaneously 5 of the most important news outlets in the world released their in-depth reporting on the information cache. Nothing like this has ever happened before. And everyone has some pretty damning discoveries.

As tweeted by Alan Rusbridger (@arusbridger), EIC of Guardian Newspapers, "Seeing guardian, nyt, der spiegel, al jazeera, le monde all breaking Iraq wikileaks. Extraordinary moment in journalism."

And the really incredible part? Everything has been released under a creative commons license from the Bureau of Investigative Journalists here: http://www.iraqwarlogs.com/. The site has crashed twice in the 20 minutes since I've been on it, but run to it.

Check out this great article on Wikileaks v the US Gov for some added context, by Nadim Kobeissi. Takeway: “No nation has ever fought, or even imagined, a war with a nation that has no homeland and a people with no identity,”

 I'll let you go through the news yourself. Here are the links:

NY Times
Guardian (eng)
Le Monde (fr)
Der Spiegel (eng)
Al-Jazeera