WikiLeaks survives DDOS, accusers warn new docs may get 'sources' killed

A distributed denial of attack on WikiLeaks main site subsided this morning after slowing traffic to a crawl starting late Tuesday evening, apparently in response to an unexpected rush-publication of more than 134,000 secret U.S. State Department cables that had not previously been released.

A New York Times story Monday said the bulk release – six times the number released up to that point – appeared to have been less closely filtered than earlier document. Many still included the names of human rights activists, journalists, academics and other State. Dept. sources in authoritarian countries whose identities had been marked "strictly protect" in the cables themselves.

The @WikiLeaks Twitter feed, widely supposed to be written by Assange himself, denied the charges in an Aug. 29 post, and slammed the NYT's intentions as well. “Totally false that any WikiLeaks sources have been exposed or will be exposed. NYT drooling, senile, and evil.”