So you’ve been hearing an awful lot about these Wikileaks cables, and you’d love to read some salacious stuff about your government, but the process of rifling through a bajillion pages for a nugget about, say, Cuba’s friends in the drug smuggling trade sounds like a lot of work. Well, then you’re in luck, you aspiring journalist/terminally bored internet addict you! Thanks to CableSearch, anyone can easily search the cables. It’s shocking how easily you can turn up dirt: a simple search for “cocaine” returned this cable featuring a Mexican official “who was arrested in October 2007 for attempting to export
840 kilograms of cocaine hidden in frozen fish.” A transexual prostitute makes a cameo in this cable. Try searching for yourself and see what you turn up.
840 kilograms of cocaine hidden in frozen fish.” A transexual prostitute makes a cameo in this cable. Try searching for yourself and see what you turn up.
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