On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 20:34, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
Leaked cables are primary sources, some of which pose problems because they may contain non-public personal identifying information. Generally the information in them becomes available for our purposes after they have been analyzed by a peer-reviewed secondary source.
This Michael Polt's analysis could be safely treated as secondary source. It obviously resumes his primary sources and it is in the form of secondary source, while not quoting primary sources. Besides that, there are similar works by sociologists in Serbian.