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    12 Years Of Disruption: A WikiLeaks Timeline

    The impact of WikiLeaks on the world's politics, journalism and culture has been transformative. Here are the highlights.
    by David Welna Apr 11, 2019 3 minutes

    WikiLeaks was already established as an online outlet for posting secret documents from anonymous leakers well before its massive disclosure of U.S. government and military information in 2010. That was the year WikiLeaks' Australian founder, Julian Assange, faced allegations that led to his seeking asylum in Ecuador's London embassy.

    Here is a timeline of WikiLeaks' key disclosures and related developments.

    2007

    November: WikiLeaks posts a U.S. Army manual of standard operating procedures for soldiers overseeing al-Qaida suspects held captive at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

    2008

    Two months before the U.S. presidential election,

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