Some of the diplomatic papers stolen from the State Department and leaked Sunday by Wikileaks show more than just potentially embarrassing revelations about U.S. views of allies but disturbing developments among alleged friends as well as foes and competitive states.
The details from the cables being released -- among 250,000 illegally taken from secret State Department records -- include discussions on the U.S. being unable to stop Syrian arms to Hezbollah, its disappointment in Qatar to stop funding terrorism and hacking by the Chinese government of U.S. computers.
Samples of some of the thousands of documents that were to be released by Wikileaks Sunday night began leaking out midday after the German newspaper Der Spiegel and The New York Times released excerpts earlier than planned.
The Wikileaks website tweeted out a copy of an article that appeared on the Gawker website taken out of Der Spiegel, which posted copies of its newspaper ahead of time. Moments later The New York Times released some of the details of documents it had acquired. The Guardian followed suit.
The massive dump began after Wikileaks announced that it had been the victim of a "denial of service" attack but that it was still releasing documents via its international newspaper partners.
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I don't think there would be an out rage if the U.S. took this freak out.
Obama would never do that because if it harms America Obama is for it.
They should capture him and try him with the military homosexual activist that gave him the information and promptly hang them both.
Nonsense. This is merely exposing these idiot administrations for what they are - liars, cheats, and thieves. Let's get it out here for all to see. If you want transparency in govt. let's have transparency so that we can see what our "leaders" are truly doing to this country. Don't be like sheep and believe what the government says about endangering people....they are trying to build contempt for the people releasing the documents and to discredit the information by calling it incomplete and out of context. Can't you people recognize propaganda war when you see it?
9:31 PM
No, they can not. They can not see past the tip of their collective noses.
One of the cables I found interesting was the one where the U.S. knew about the underwear bomber and he was still allowed to get on a plane with explosives.
Even though the U.S. government knew about the
danger
of the young man, he was able to fly around the world without
difficulty. Almost without any problems, he was able to smuggle
dangerous substances aboard an aircraft. But what if he really had
the order from al-Qaida in Yemen to blow up the plane? How does
this
view then fit the U.S. focus on Afghanistan? Is Yemen, too, a front
in the anti-terror war? Many question, but only a few answers."
Regional daily Nrnberger Nachrichten (12/28) and regional daily
Trierischer Volksfreund (12/28) judged: "How was it possible for a
young man to get aboard with a one-way ticket and an Arabic sounding
name, whose contacts with Islamic extremists were known and whose
father even warned the U.S. embassy? The lists of passengers
travelling to the United States are transferred in advance to the
U.S.
Homeland Security Department with all its data bases. But again we
see a big hole in the net that is supposed to capture potential
terrorists. Of course, one hundred percent security will never
exist,
but these gaps are dramatic and should be an alarm call which
politicians should not ignore."
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/12/09BERLIN1626.html
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