Jeremiah Tolbert

I don’t really take a strong stand on the Wikilinks issue.  Is it bad for the U.S.?  Maybe.  I lean towards think­ing that a lit­tle sun­light in gov­ern­ment is bet­ter for the world over­all, but it also seems like inter­na­tional diplo­macy is a lot of pos­tur­ing and bull­shit, and truth only mucks up the ridicu­lous process.

No mat­ter how you come out on the issue, though, I think we can agree that the sto­ries that are com­ing out of the leak are a utter gold mine of mate­r­ial for writ­ers, espe­cially writ­ers of thrillers.  Here are just a few of the sto­ries and details that we’ve seen so far, and I’m sure more are to be discovered.

BoingBoing rounds up a few inter­est­ing things here, here, and here. Among them, the story of a 75 year old man escap­ing from Iran on horse­back over a frozen moun­tain range, Putin is Batman and Medvedev is Robin, the U.S. does not like the UK gov­ern­ment in power right now, we have a net­work of spies in the German gov­ern­ment, and more.

Wild stuff.  It’s rare that on a geopo­lit­i­cal scale, some­one pulls back the cur­tains an exposes the way things work for real.  So if noth­ing else, you can think of this as a boon of poten­tial story and research material.

One last thing: check out Wikilink’s ISP.  It’s like the lair of a James Bond vil­lain.  I want to go to there.

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Tags: cables, diplomacy, My Writing, wikileaks