WikiLeaks still sitting on hundreds of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables

WikiLeaks has published just over 1 percent of the diplomatic cables obtained by the document-dumping website, according to the site.

The site began leaking the State Department cables, much of correspondence revealing frank and embarrassing observations about U.S. partners and world leaders, on Nov. 28.

But in that time, just 2,628 cables have been released, the Associated Press notes.

WikiLeaks claims to have a stash of 251,287 cables. This is on top of the leak that co-founder and spokesman Julian Assange, who is fighting extradition to Sweden on sex-crimes charges, promised this year that will take aim at Wall Street as he claims to have a massive leak of Bank of America emails.

This past week, Robert Stary, an Australian lawyer for Assange, promised to pursue “private prosecution” of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for incitement if she ever steps on American soil.

He claimed that her December Facebook post saying that Assange should be “pursued with the same urgency as al-Qaida and Taliban leaders” was tantamount to a death threat.

“We’ve been troubled by the sort of rhetoric that has come out of various commentators and principally Republican politicians – Sarah Palin and the like – saying Mr. Assange should be executed, assassinated,” Stary told NPR.