State Dept. Warns People Named in WikiLeaks

There’s been a lot of media attention paid to Julian Assange’s safety, but the U.S. State Department has others' safety in mind: those named in WikiLeaks' 251,287 diplomatic cables. The State Department has quietly been issuing warnings to the hundreds of human-rights activists, foreign government officials, and businesspeople identified, according to The New York Times, though many publications that printed the cables removed sensitive names. But the State Department is most worried about the rest of the cables—99 percent of them have not yet been published—despite having reviewed a majority of them. While the State Department declined to discuss details, it did say a few people named have been relocated within their home countries and some have moved abroad.