" 
 :::In response to ""it's a rather large coincidence that Wikileaks releases these just weeks after the Manning issue exploded"". Democracy Now! had Julian Assange as a guest during or just after the release of the Collateral Murder video where he stated that (not verbatim) they planned a massive release at the end of the 2010 summer, clearly alluding to this leak. The approximate release date has been in the works for around six months.  "