In 2010, the anti-secrecy organization known as WikiLeaks made headlines around
the world when it released thousands of classified U.S. government diplomatic
cables and battlefield reports. The New York Times played a crucial role in
breaking the WikiLeaks story, and .Open Secrets. is the definitive chronicle of
the documents. release and the controversy that ensued. It includes detailed
analyses of the documents by Times correspondents; opinion essays by Frank Rich,
Maureen Dowd and others; and the full text of all the cables and war logs posted
on The Times's Web site, along with 27 new cables selected for this volume.
It also includes an essay in which the executive editor of The Times, Bill Keller,
explains how the newspaper came to publish documents obtained by WikiLeaks, and
why it did; expanded profiles of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks's founder, and Bradley
Manning, the Army private suspected of being his source; and original essays on
what the fracas has revealed about American diplomacy and government secrecy.
A legal and technological thriller and a primer on world politics, "Open Secrets"
is also a field guide to how information and power are wielded today, and why it
matters.

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