http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/cablegate Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:27:03 -0400 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:27:03 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/625/cablegate-and-watergate-more-namesake-than-legacy By Tonei Glavinic - Just a few months after making international news in early 2010 for releasing confidential reports on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the international whistleblower site Wikileaks began publicly releasing information from a series of over 250,000 classified diplomatic cables it had illegally obtained from a U.S. military database. This release, which quickly came to be known as Cablegate, was condemned by the U.S. Department of State as “reckless and dangerous” for its potential to negatively impact United States interests abroad (including the safety of diplomats’ confidential... Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:39 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/625/cablegate-and-watergate-more-namesake-than-legacy