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Wikileaks diplomatic cables stories: 49 news summaries

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WikiLeaks Off Limits
in Antarctica

Research bases ordered not to access leaked cables

11 hours, 17 minutes ago

WikiLeaks Off Limits in Antarctica

Research bases ordered not to access leaked cables
(Newser) - The US government may have found somewhere where it can effectively ban WikiLeaks. The 1,500 Americans currently in Antarctica with the US Antarctic Program have been warned that the diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks are classified information and the transmission, processing or use of the information on USAP systems... More »

Australia: Assange
Hasn't Broken Our Laws

Police decide Assange, WikiLeaks won't be charged

13 hours, 19 minutes ago

Australia: Assange Hasn't Broken Our Laws

Police decide Assange, WikiLeaks won't be charged
(Newser) - Julian Assange won't have any criminal charges to answer if he returns to his homeland, Australian police have decided. Despite Prime Minister Julia Gillard's recent description of WikiLeaks' activities as illegal, federal police have announced that neither the group nor its founder have broken any Australian laws with its release... More »

Before Gulf, BP Had
Azerbaijan Spill: WikiLeaks

Cables say PM accused firm of stealing billions

Dec 16, 2010 8:10 AM CST

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... More »

State Dept. to Staffers:
Don't Read WikiLeaks at Home

Cables still aren't declassified, department warns

Dec 16, 2010 5:00 AM CST

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... More »

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... More »

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... More »

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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... More »

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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,... More »

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... More »

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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... More »

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... More »

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... More »

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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.... More »

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.... More »

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... More »

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... More »

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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,... More »

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 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... More »

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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... More »

 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... More »

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