Last week, the whistle-blower website Wikileaks released more than 250,000 pages of sensitive diplomatic notes, cables, and information from the United States government. Here is some of the information included in the mountain of documents:
In 2008, Nicolas Sarkozy gave everyone else iPods for Christmas, but U.S. diplomats received candles
Kim Jong-il is registered with the Writers Guild of America under the pseudonym “Roland Emmerich”
Rahm Emanuel brushes his teeth if he eats so much as a snack
Since the first day of his tenure, U.K. prime minister David Cameron has lobbied the Queen to knight Spacemen 3 as a band
Threats and aid offers equally ineffective in forcing Vladimir Putin to put a shirt on during diplomatic negotiations
Ahmadinejad has a closet with, like, 200 of those jackets
The majority of diplomatic relations with Israel still go through comatose former prime minister Ariel Sharon
U.S. diplomatic privacy measures are terrible
