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Glenn Greenwald compiled a list of the impactful stories that have emerged from the WikiLeaks releasing information in this past year. Everything from video of U.S. helicopter pilots firing indiscriminately at a crowd of people whom they failed to identify first, to requests by the State Department to obtain biometric data on U.N. officials.
For those unsure of what biometric data is, it is the personal information that includes physical characteristics, like fingerprints, that allows a person to access secure data. Our State department wanted to spy on these U.N. officials, and access their personal computers, communications, and sensitive files. And yes, this is the Obama Administration doing this.
Christian Science Monitor, April 5, 2010:
The Guardian, October 22, 2010:
The Guardian, October 22, 2010:
Foreign Policy, November 29, 2010:
Mother Jones, December 1, 2010: 
TRANSLATION: U.S. maneuvered to stop High Court cases: American embassy issued threats over the cases of ‘Guantanamo’, ‘Couso’ and ‘CIA flights’ – Politicians and Spanish prosecutors collaborated on the strategy
Will Bunch, The Philadelphia Inquirer, responding to the cables from Spain, December 1, 2010:
Der Spiegel, December 9, 2010:
Ellen Knickmeyer, ex-Washington Post Baghdad Bureau Chief, The Daily Beast, October 25, 2010:
Sydney Morning Herald, November 29, 2010:
The Guatemala Times, November 28, 2010:
The Guardian, November 30, 2010:
Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post, July 27, 2010:
Those are just some of the truths that led WikiLeaks — and whoever the leaker(s) is — to sacrifice their own interests in order to disclose these secrets to the world.
