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11-28-2010, 8:40pm
Cables shine light into secret diplomatic channels
The confidential material was obtained by WikiLeaks and released despite requests by the U.S. government not to do so
Today
NYT: Cables uncloak secret U.S. diplomacy - World news - The New York Times - msnbc.com (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40405218/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times/)
WASHINGTON — A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats.
Some of the cables, made available to The New York Times and several other news organizations, were written as recently as late February, revealing the Obama administration’s exchanges over crises and conflicts. The material was originally obtained by WikiLeaks, an organization devoted to revealing secret documents. WikiLeaks intends to make the archive public on its Web site in batches, beginning Sunday.
The anticipated disclosure of the cables is already sending shudders through the diplomatic establishment, and could conceivably strain relations with some countries, influencing international affairs in ways that are impossible to predict.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and American ambassadors around the world have been contacting foreign officials in recent days to alert them to the expected disclosures. On Saturday, the State Department’s legal adviser, Harold Hongju Koh, wrote to a lawyer for WikiLeaks informing the organization that the distribution of the cables was illegal and could endanger lives, disrupt military and counterterrorism operations and undermine international cooperation against nuclear proliferation and other threats.
The cables, a huge sampling of the daily traffic between the State Department and some 270 embassies and consulates, amount to a secret chronicle of the United States’ relations with the world in an age of war and terrorism. Among their revelations, to be detailed in The Times in coming days,
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Terrorism’s shadow
Fodder for historians
Diplomatic drama
Not all business
Video inside ~
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Where's Bush & Cheney proclaiming they kept the country safe from 10:28 a.m 9/11/2001 to present day ?
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The confidential material was obtained by WikiLeaks and released despite requests by the U.S. government not to do so
Today
NYT: Cables uncloak secret U.S. diplomacy - World news - The New York Times - msnbc.com (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40405218/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times/)
WASHINGTON — A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats.
Some of the cables, made available to The New York Times and several other news organizations, were written as recently as late February, revealing the Obama administration’s exchanges over crises and conflicts. The material was originally obtained by WikiLeaks, an organization devoted to revealing secret documents. WikiLeaks intends to make the archive public on its Web site in batches, beginning Sunday.
The anticipated disclosure of the cables is already sending shudders through the diplomatic establishment, and could conceivably strain relations with some countries, influencing international affairs in ways that are impossible to predict.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and American ambassadors around the world have been contacting foreign officials in recent days to alert them to the expected disclosures. On Saturday, the State Department’s legal adviser, Harold Hongju Koh, wrote to a lawyer for WikiLeaks informing the organization that the distribution of the cables was illegal and could endanger lives, disrupt military and counterterrorism operations and undermine international cooperation against nuclear proliferation and other threats.
The cables, a huge sampling of the daily traffic between the State Department and some 270 embassies and consulates, amount to a secret chronicle of the United States’ relations with the world in an age of war and terrorism. Among their revelations, to be detailed in The Times in coming days,
(Read continues in Link)
Terrorism’s shadow
Fodder for historians
Diplomatic drama
Not all business
Video inside ~
http://i54.tinypic.com/2w24zsw.jpg
Where's Bush & Cheney proclaiming they kept the country safe from 10:28 a.m 9/11/2001 to present day ?
:bs: