What is Wikileaks? - It is an international non-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks. (As stated in Wikipedia)
The recent release of thousands of sensitive diplomatic cables is just the latest in a long list of "leaks" published by the secretive site. Wikileaks has established a reputation for publishing sensitive material from governments and other high-profile organisations.
In October 2010, the site released almost 400,000 secret US military logs detailing its operations in Iraq. Before this, the leaked out nearly 90,000 classified military records, which gave an insight into the military strategy in Afghanistan. Not only these, Wikileaks posted a video on its website in April 2010, that shows a US Apache helicopter killing at least 12 people during an attack in Baghdad in 2007.
Wikileaks is operated by an organisation known as the Sunshine Press and claims to be "funded by human rights campaigners, investigative journalists, technologists and the general public". Since Wikileaks first appeared on the net, it has faced various legal challenges and it had fought off more than 100 legal challenges successfully.
In 2008, for example, the Swiss bank Julius Baer won a court ruling to block the site after Wikileaks posted "several hundred" documents about its offshore activities. It was eventually overturned.
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