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Before Gulf, BP Had
Azerbaijan Spill: WikiLeaks
Cables say PM accused firm of stealing billions
1 hour, 54 minutes ago
Before Gulf, BP Had Azerbaijan Spill: WikiLeaks
Cables say PM accused firm of stealing billions
(Newser)
- Eighteen months before the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the company experienced a similar huge leak in Azerbaijan, WikiLeaks cables reveal. The firm was tight-lipped about the incident, angering its partners, the cables note, adding that BP was fortunate in getting its 212 workers to safety, the...
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State Dept. to Staffers:
Don't Read WikiLeaks at Home
Cables still aren't declassified, department warns
5 hours, 4 minutes ago
State Dept. to Staffers: Don't Read WikiLeaks at Home
Cables still aren't declassified, department warns
(Newser)
- The State Department is reminding staffers that just because everybody can read its leaked cables, it doesn't mean they're declassified. Employees in the department's Consular Affairs-Passport division yesterday received a memo telling them that if they don't need to access the information for the performance of official duties, they should...
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Air Force Blocks News Sites
That Posted WikiLeaks Cables
Personnel denied access to
New York Times
, other sites
Dec 15, 2010 7:14 AM CST
Air Force Blocks News Sites That Posted WikiLeaks Cables
Personnel denied access to New York Times , other sites
(Newser)
- The Air Force has blocked more than 25 websites from its computer system, effectively barring its personnel from using work computers to view the
New York Times
and other news sites that published documents released by WikiLeaks. Users who attempt to access these sites see a message reading "Access...
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WikiLeaks Cable Triggers Lawsuit Over Journo's Death
WikiLeaks: Spain colluded with US to quash charges against troops
Dec 14, 2010 4:19 AM CST
WikiLeaks Cable Triggers Lawsuit Over Journo's Death
WikiLeaks: Spain colluded with US to quash charges against troops
(Newser)
- The family of a Spanish cameraman killed by American forces in Baghdad have launched what could be the first legal action to use WikiLeaks diplomatic cables as evidence. Jose Couso died along with a Reuters cameraman in 2003 when a US tank shell hit their hotel, a Pentagon-approved safe haven...
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WikiLeaks Reveal
Australia: Iran Just Wants
to Be Friends
Washington shouldn't look at Iran as a 'rogue state,' cable argues
Dec 13, 2010 10:39 AM CST
Australia: Iran Just Wants to Be Friends
Washington shouldn't look at Iran as a 'rogue state,' cable argues
(Newser)
- Australia has urged the US to go easier on Iran, arguing that its nuclear weapons program is intended only for deterrence, according to a cable released today by WikiLeaks. “It’s a mistake to think of Iran as a ‘rogue state,’” the head of Australia’s...
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WIKILEAKS CABLES
Vatican Stonewalled Irish
Sex-Abuse Investigation
Holy See was 'offended' by Dublin's request for info
Dec 11, 2010 9:09 AM CST
Vatican Stonewalled Irish Sex-Abuse Investigation
Holy See was 'offended' by Dublin's request for info
(Newser)
- Ireland's 2009 sex-abuse commission was an excruciating national cleansing—but when the Vatican was called on to help air the clergy's part in the scandal it balked, refusing to let its officials testify. The Holy See even went so far as say many were "offended" by requests for information,...
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Pakistani Papers Publish Fake WikiLeak Cables Bashing India
Claim that US diplomats called India's generals genocidal
Dec 10, 2010 10:00 AM CST
Pakistani Papers Publish Fake WikiLeak Cables Bashing India
Claim that US diplomats called India's generals genocidal
(Newser)
- State Department diplomats are convinced that India is up to no good, Pakistan’s top newspapers declared today. Nearly identical stories in four Pakistani papers claimed that WikiLeaks’ cable cache contained communiqués from US diplomats saying they had evidence that India was allied with both Hindu fundamentalists and Islamist...
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wikileaks reveal
Burma Working on Nuclear Weapon in Secret Jungle Site
Witnesses say they've seen secret facility, missiles: WikiLeaks reveal
Dec 10, 2010 7:45 AM CST
Burma Working on Nuclear Weapon in Secret Jungle Site
Witnesses say they've seen secret facility, missiles: WikiLeaks reveal
(Newser)
- Burma may be building nuclear weapons, according to some of WikiLeaks’ State Department cables. A Burmese officer told US diplomats that he’d seen North Korean technicians helping to build “a concrete-reinforced underground facility,” where surface-to-air missiles were being assembled, the
Guardian
reports. Another witness said he’d...
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Berkeley May Anoint
Army WikiLeaker a 'Hero'
Council will vote on Bradley Manning resolution next week
Dec 9, 2010 6:55 PM CST
Berkeley May Anoint Army WikiLeaker a 'Hero'
Council will vote on Bradley Manning resolution next week
(Newser)
- Bradley Manning is a traitor to some, but he might just be an official American hero to Berkeley. The city council will vote next week on a resolution praising the imprisoned Army private who's accused of delivering classified military documents to WikiLeaks, reports the
San Francisco Chronicle
. "If he...
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Australia to US: You, Not Assange, to Blame for Leaks
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd puts the blame on the leakers
Dec 8, 2010 8:12 AM CST
Australia to US: You, Not Assange, to Blame for Leaks
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd puts the blame on the leakers
(Newser)
- As Julian Assange spent the night in a British jail , his home country finally came to his defense. The WikiLeaks founder may have published classified documents, but he got them from
somewhere
. "Mr. Assange is not himself responsible for the unauthorized release of 250,000 documents from the US...
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wikileaks reveal
Lockerbie Bomber Freed After 'Thuggish' Gadhafi Threats
British intelligence also suggests 'imminent death' was a stretch
Dec 8, 2010 4:47 AM CST
Lockerbie Bomber Freed After 'Thuggish' Gadhafi Threats
British intelligence also suggests 'imminent death' was a stretch
(Newser)
- The
Guardian
highlights WikiLeaks cables surrounding the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi , freed by Scotland last year because he supposedly had only a few months to live. The cables show that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's government put "thuggish" pressure on Britain to make sure Megrahi went free....
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WikiLeaks: US Failing
to Stop Flow of Mideast Arms
Hezbollah now has 50K Syrian-supplied rockets, missiles
Dec 7, 2010 4:00 AM CST
WikiLeaks: US Failing to Stop Flow of Mideast Arms
Hezbollah now has 50K Syrian-supplied rockets, missiles
(Newser)
- American efforts to prevent a buildup of arms in the Middle East have been largely frustrated, according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. In one cable, the State Department accuses Syria of breaking a promise to not provide Hezbollah militants in Lebanon with new missiles, the
New York Times
reports....
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WikiLeaks Releases List of Sites Key to US Security
Critics call list 'gift' for terrorists
Dec 6, 2010 1:32 PM CST
WikiLeaks Releases List of Sites Key to US Security
Critics call list 'gift' for terrorists
(Newser)
- WikiLeaks has released a State Department cable listing dozens of sites around the world that the US considers vital to its national security, CNN reports. The list springs from a February 2009 cable, in which the State Department asked diplomats to identify key resources, facilities, and installations. Diplomats replied with...
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Assange: Kill or Bust Me and I Release Everything
WikiLeaks warns it has 'thermonuclear device' of encrypted files
Dec 6, 2010 7:58 AM CST
Assange: Kill or Bust Me and I Release Everything
WikiLeaks warns it has 'thermonuclear device' of encrypted files
(Newser)
- WikiLeaks' founder has a "thermonuclear device" of unreleased files that he says he'll detonate if he's killed or brought to trial. Julian Assange has widely distributed an encrypted 1.3-gigabyte file containing the full versions of all the US documents the site has received, and his lawyer says the...
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wikileaks
US Government to Workers: No Reading Leaked Docs!
Plus, State Dept. official gives similar warning to university students
Dec 5, 2010 2:02 PM CST
US Government to Workers: No Reading Leaked Docs!
Plus, State Dept. official gives similar warning to university students
(Newser)
- Despite the fact that many diplomatic cables and other classified documents have already been public and easily accessible for a week thanks to WikiLeaks , the government is ordering federal employees not to read them. “Classified information, whether or not already posted on public websites or disclosed to the media,...
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WIKILEAKS CABLES
China Ordered Google Attacks
And learned the Internet was 'fundamentally controllable'
Dec 5, 2010 7:25 AM CST
China Ordered Google Attacks
And learned the Internet was 'fundamentally controllable'
(Newser)
- Chinese invasions of Google’s networks were perpetrated by the top levels of China’s government, an insider says in cables released by WikiLeaks. “According to our contact, the closely held operations”—in which Google said a “significant” amount of intellectual property was stolen—“were directed...
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wikileaks
Google's China Trouble: Politician Googled Himself
Propaganda official became angry after seeing 'critical results'
Dec 4, 2010 3:36 PM CST
Google's China Trouble: Politician Googled Himself
Propaganda official became angry after seeing 'critical results'
(Newser)
- Much of Google's trouble with China has to do with a thin-skinned senior politician who Googled himself and discovered, to his horror, that people weren't writing nice things about him. Both the
New York Times
and the
Guardian
lead their WikiLeaks coverage with the anecdote about Li Changhun, the country's...
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PayPal Kills Wikileaks' Account
Service says it can't be used for illegal activity
Dec 4, 2010 9:04 AM CST
PayPal Kills Wikileaks' Account
Service says it can't be used for illegal activity
(Newser)
- Want to donate to the less-than-popular cause of WikiLeaks? Better find an option other than PayPal, which has yanked the account used by the elusive leakers to take in donations, reports the AP. WikiLeaks had violated its policy, PayPal contends in a blog, "which states that our payment service...
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Charles Krauthammer
Let's Make Julian Assange Afraid to Walk Outside
Krauthammer: 'Passive' response makes US look weak
Dec 3, 2010 1:56 PM CST
Let's Make Julian Assange Afraid to Walk Outside
Krauthammer: 'Passive' response makes US look weak
(Newser)
- Don't believe this stuff about the WikiLeaks cables dealing in harmless gossip, writes Charles Krauthammer, who maintains that the damage is real and far-reaching. Which has him carping about the "torpid and passive" response by the US and wondering why Julian Assange is still a free man. "It's...
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Lieberman Floats Bill to Kill WikiLeaks
Naming a US intelligence source would be federal crime
Dec 3, 2010 1:14 PM CST
Lieberman Floats Bill to Kill WikiLeaks
Naming a US intelligence source would be federal crime
(Newser)
- Joe Lieberman and a number of other senators have introduced legislation that would make it a crime to publish the name of a US intelligence source, in an explicit attack on WikiLeaks. The recent release of State Department cables “is just the latest example of how our national security...
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