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It could be right. This was a very small amount of information from big sort of renown tag on profound consequence resulting possibly in resignation of the Nixon administration. Number three, the treaty of Guadalupe. I did not know about this story at all. This is quite an interesting one to see, I kind of sense where that should be number three or number one, but it's interesting to see such an old leak. Number four is another one of ours, the Apache helicopter shootings from Baghdad. That actually was a significant and quite moving piece of material. Five, McChrystal's war plan. This probably shouldn't be here. That leak from McChrystal was a sort of official planted leak to try and get a political movement behind what he was doing. The Twilight leak, this is some Hollywood crap. I don't know why this is here. Pretty [ unk ]. And we have another one, Lil Wayne's The Leak. Right? That is quite interesting to see that as United States gains cultural sophistication, some journals are discovering the irony exists, of course, in Eastern Europe and in Russia, the way people have been suffering at the communist bureaucrats for a long time or invasions by the Nazis. There is a deep sense of political irony in the culture, but United States is sort of more optimistic society, is just starting to discover this now. So when people see something that they think is ironic like, now we're gonna call The Leak being leaked, it's really sort of pushes it up into public awareness. Number eight, the Pentagon pages, though I can arguably made, this should have been number one even though its not one of ours. This was 10, 000-- I'm sorry about 7000 to 10, 000 parts of top secret pages from the RAND corporation's history of the Vietnam War. It was leaked by Iran consultant and peace activist Daniel Ellsberg, who was the most wanted man in America for a period of some-- some 13 days after that leak. New York Times publis --[ unk ] on the front page that was injuncted, that was the primary reason against such a big case is because the Nixon Administration took a legal action against the New York Times which ended with the Times being forced off the publish for some 10 days. Number nine, another one of ours, is Sarah Palin's e- mails. That was extremely popular but not of so much political consequence. Sarah Palin had been using an alternative Hotmail address to hide some of the political and governmental work from the Freedom of Information Act in Alaska where she was governor. Plame get to Valerie Plame, a former CIA officer. She was a CIA Officer at the time of this leak. Her husband, Wilson, was a US Ambassador who said that the allegations about [ unk ] supplying Uranium to Iraq in the buildup to the Iraq war in 2003 was bait, and the leaking of her name appears to have been a political revenge taken by the Bush Administration. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"WikiLeaks Founder Assange on History's Top Leaks","description":"The founder of WikiLeaks gives his opinions on one of TIME.com's top 10 lists -- the top ten leaks of all time","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/rNvCKBRZ/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2010-07-27T21:04:40.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/rNvCKBRZ.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/rNvCKBRZ/","duration":"PT4M11S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/rNvCKBRZ/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```