Wikileaks releases an additional 250,000 classified documents and information sent by U.S. embassies.

Wikileaks is a not-for-profit organization that publishes classified and private government documents online. The database, launched in 2006, received 1.2 million documents from anonymous news sources within a year of its existence.

It was on this day, November 28th, in 2010 that Wikileaks released an additional 250,000 confidential, but not top-secret, documents and information from U.S. embassies.

Wikileaks was not the only media service to release these diplomatic cables that came from 274 U.S. embassies. The five other large newspapers around the world that also released the documents were Spain’s El País, France’s Le Monde, Germany’s Der Spiegel, the United Kingdom’s The Guardian, and the United State’s New York Times. Two weeks later, the United States Department of Justice took action against Wikileaks to try to find the leaked sources.