The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Flate Political Gab Fest for Friday, July 30th, 2010.

I'm David Plotz here in Washington, where I will be joined very shortly by John Dickerson, who's stuck in traffic.

Joining from New Haven, where she's not stuck in traffic, is Emily Bazelon, Slate Senior

Editor or something like that.

And joining us from San Francisco, special guest appearance for his expertise on all things

technological, leak-oriented, and everything else, is Farhad Manju, Slate's technology columnist. Farhad, thanks for

coming to the Gab Fest. Hi, I'm going to be here. So we're going to talk about three things today.

We're going to talk about, no, we're going to talk about four things today. Why not? We're going to

talk about WikiLeaks and the WikiLeaks adventure that took place this week. We're going to talk about the Arizona immigration decision

and the Arizona immigration law that went into effect yesterday.

We're going to talk about the fight over the Bush tax cuts,

and we're going to talk about Charlie Rangel,

the House Democratic Lion, who's in big ethics trouble,

and then we'll have cocktail chatter.

And Farhad's going to join us for this first Wiki segment, and hopefully John will be back before it's over.

So Farhad, for those people who are living in a cave in Afghanistan and were not leaked documents this week,

why don't you just give us a quick summary of the WikiLeaks story of the week?

Yeah, so WikiLeaks posted on Sunday, it posted 75,000 of what it says as an actual trove of 90,000, classified military documents covering the war in Afghanistan. And they had actually given some of these, they had actually given this trove to three

newspapers, including the New York Times, which also published stories based on this.

And it's a remarkable collection of documents.

It basically gives sort of this grounds-eye view of the war, and it caused a big splash.

...