WikiLaughs: Top eight WikiLeaks jokes

5. The Onion peels back WikiLeaks layers

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Vladimir Putin: fishing and flouting US foreign policy all at once.

Satirists have taken the WikiLeaks release of private State Department communications and reframed the information a bit.

Citing the documents, for example, the Onion website reveals: "Threats and aid offers equally ineffective in forcing Vladimir Putin to put a shirt on during diplomatic negotiations." After a few more items, the Onion discloses a final secret: "U.S. diplomatic privacy measures are terrible."

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