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12 Jun 2017

The Long, Lonely Road of Chelsea Manning

In January 2017, after being locked up at five different facilities, in  conditions a United Nations expert called “cruel” and “inhumane,”  Manning had received a surprise commutation by President Barack Obama. Four months later, she was free, trying to adjust to life in a world she helped shape. Finishing her coffee, she fished her iPhone out of her purse and asked her security guard for a lift back to the apartment where she was staying while in Manhattan.
In January 2017, after being locked up at five different facilities, in  conditions a...
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12 Jun 2015

Germany Drops Inquiry Into Claims U.S. Tapped Angela Merkel’s Phone

Germany s federal prosecutor said on Friday that he had dropped a formal investigation into allegations of eavesdropping on one of Chancellor Angela Merkel s cellphones by an American intelligence agency because of a lack of concrete evidence. A German news report in October 2013 that the National Security Agency had tapped one of Ms. Merkel s private cellphones prompted outrage among citizens already angry over previous reports of the widespread gathering of telecommunications data by United States and British intelligence services.
Germany s federal prosecutor said on Friday that he had dropped a formal investigation into allegations of eavesdropping...
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15 Apr 2015

Germany Is Accused of Helping N.S.A. Spy on European Allies

Chancellor Angela Merkel s government is fending off allegations that the German secret service helped the United States to spy on European partners and companies, nearly a year after Ms. Merkel expelled the top American spy in a rare display of anger over revelations of widespread United States intelligence operations in Germany.
Chancellor Angela Merkel s government is fending off allegations that the German secret service helped the United States...
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18 Oct 2014

The Documentary ‘Citizenfour’ Raises Political Questions

Early in Laura Poitras's documentary "Citizenfour," Edward J. Snowden, who exposed vast electronic surveillance by the United States government, tells what pushed him to go public. "As I saw the promise of the Obama administration betrayed, and walked away from," says Mr. Snowden, referring to drone strikes and invasive monitoring by the National Security Agency, "it really hardened me to action."
Early in Laura Poitras's documentary "Citizenfour," Edward J. Snowden, who exposed vast electronic surveillance by the...
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16 Sep 2014

Israel’s N.S.A. Scandal

Among Snowden's most shocking discoveries, he told me, was the fact that the N.S.A. was routinely passing along the private communications of Americans to a large and very secretive Israeli military organization known as Unit 8200. This transfer of intercepts, he said, included the contents of the communications as well as metadata such as who was calling whom. Mr. Snowden stressed that the transfer of intercepts to Israel contained the communications - email as well as phone calls - of countless Arab- and Palestinian-Americans whose relatives in Israel and the Palestinian territories could become targets based on the communications. "I think that s amazing," he told me. "It's one of the biggest abuses we've seen."
Among Snowden's most shocking discoveries, he told me, was the fact that the N.S.A. was routinely passing along the...
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18 Aug 2014

Julian Assange Says He Will Leave Embassy ‘Soon’

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who was given asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy here two years ago, said Monday that he will be leaving the embassy soon, but he provided no specifics. In a long and meandering news conference at which he was accompanied by the Ecuadorean foreign minister, Ricardo Pati o, Mr. Assange summarized his case, insisting that he had helped bring about needed change in the British extradition system and saying that his health was suffering after two years at the embassy.
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who was given asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy here two years ago, said Monday...
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14 Jun 2014

The Fog Machine of War

If you were following the news during the March 2010 elections in Iraq, you might remember that the American press was flooded with stories declaring the elections a success, complete with upbeat anecdotes and photographs of Iraqi women proudly displaying their ink-stained fingers. The subtext was that United States military operations had succeeded in creating a stable and democratic Iraq. Early that year, I received orders to investigate 15 individuals whom the federal police had arrested on suspicion of printing anti-Iraqi literature. I learned that these individuals had absolutely no ties to terrorism; they were publishing a scholarly critique of Mr. Maliki s administration. I forwarded this finding to the officer in command in eastern Baghdad. He responded that he didn t need this information; instead, I should assist the federal police in locating more anti-Iraqi print shops.
If you were following the news during the March 2010 elections in Iraq, you might remember that the American press was...
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31 May 2014

N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images

The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts through its global surveillance operations for use in sophisticated facial recognition programs, according to top-secret documents. The spy agency's reliance on facial recognition technology has grown significantly over the last four years as the agency has turned to new software to exploit the flood of images included in emails, text messages, social media, videoconferences and other communications, the N.S.A. documents reveal.
The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts...
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28 May 2014

Snowden Says He Was a Spy, Not Just an Analyst

Edward J. Snowden says he was not merely a 'low-level analyst' writing computer code for American spies, as President Obama and other administration officials have portrayed him. Instead, he says, he was a trained spy who worked under assumed names overseas for the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency.
Edward J. Snowden says he was not merely a 'low-level analyst' writing computer code for American spies, as President...
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23 May 2014

‘No Place to Hide,’ by Glenn Greenwald

My position was straightforward, Glenn Greenwald writes. By ordering illegal eavesdropping, the president had committed crimes and should be held accountable for them. You break the law, you pay the price: It s that simple. But it s not that simple, as Greenwald must know. There are laws against government eavesdropping on American citizens, and there are laws against leaking official government documents. You can t just choose the laws you like and ignore the ones you don t like. Or perhaps you can, but you can t then claim that it s all very straightforward.
My position was straightforward, Glenn Greenwald writes. By ordering illegal eavesdropping, the president had committed...
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20 May 2014

Fine Line Seen in U.S. Spying on Companies

The National Security Agency has never said what it was seeking when it invaded the computers of Petrobras, Brazil s huge national oil company, but angry Brazilians have guesses: the company s troves of data on Brazil s offshore oil reserves, or perhaps its plans for allocating licenses for exploration to foreign companies.
The National Security Agency has never said what it was seeking when it invaded the computers of Petrobras, Brazil s...
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17 Apr 2014

Video of Snowden Asking Putin About Surveillance

Mr. Snowden s appearance on the broadcast, which is thought to be heavily scripted by the Kremlin, led to immediate criticism from some observers. One was the Slate columnist Anne Applebaum, who recently compared Russia s destabilization of Ukraine to the work of Soviet intelligence agents in post-war Europe: "Edward Snowden has just officially made himself into a Russian propaganda tool"
Mr. Snowden s appearance on the broadcast, which is thought to be heavily scripted by the Kremlin, led to immediate...
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14 Apr 2014

Pulitzer Prizes Awarded for Coverage of N.S.A. Documents and Boston Bombing

The Washington Post and Guardian U.S. won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, among the most prestigious awards in journalism, for their stories based on National Security Agency documents leaked by the former government contractor Edward J. Snowden. Through a series of reports that exposed the N.S.A.'s widespread domestic surveillance program, the Post and Guardian U.S. sparked an international debate on the limits of government surveillance.
The Washington Post and Guardian U.S. won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, among the most prestigious awards in...
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6 Apr 2014

Snowden to Receive Truth-Telling Prize

The Ridenhour prize for truth-telling will be given to Edward J. Snowden and Laura Poitras, the filmmaker and journalist who helped Mr. Snowden disclose his trove of documents on government surveillance. The award, named for the Vietnam veteran who helped expose the My Lai massacre and later became an investigative journalist, is expected to be announced on Monday morning.
The Ridenhour prize for truth-telling will be given to Edward J. Snowden and Laura Poitras, the filmmaker and journalist...
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25 Mar 2014

Obama to Call for End to N.S.A.’s Bulk Data Collection

The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal for a far-reaching overhaul of the National Security Agency s once-secret bulk phone records program in a way that - if approved by Congress - would end the aspect that has most alarmed privacy advocates since its existence was leaked last year, according to senior administration officials.
The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal for a far-reaching overhaul of the National...
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9 Feb 2014

Snowden Used Low-Cost Tool to Best N.S.A.

Intelligence officials investigating how Edward J. Snowden gained access to a huge trove of the country s most highly classified documents say they have determined that he used inexpensive and widely available software to "scrape" the National Security Agency s networks, and kept at it even after he was briefly challenged by agency officials.
Intelligence officials investigating how Edward J. Snowden gained access to a huge trove of the country s most highly...
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25 Jan 2014

Russia Plans to Extend Snowden Asylum, Lawmaker Says

Russia plans to extend its offer of asylum to Edward J. Snowden beyond August, a Russian lawmaker said Friday at the World Economic Forum here. The lawmaker, Aleksei K. Pushkov, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in Russia s lower house of Parliament, hinted during a panel discussion that the extension of temporary refugee status for Mr. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, might be indefinite.
Russia plans to extend its offer of asylum to Edward J. Snowden beyond August, a Russian lawmaker said Friday at the...
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24 Jan 2014

U.S. Willing to Hold Talks if Snowden Pleads Guilty

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Thursday that the United States was willing to discuss how the criminal case against Edward J. Snowden would be handled, but only if Mr. Snowden pleaded guilty first. Mr. Holder, speaking at a question-and-answer event at the University of Virginia, did not specify the guilty pleas the Justice Department would expect before it would open talks with Mr. Snowden s lawyers. And the attorney general reiterated that the United States was not willing to offer clemency to Mr. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who has leaked documents that American officials have said threaten national security.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Thursday that the United States was willing to discuss how the criminal case...
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22 Jan 2014

Snowden Denies Suggestions That He Was a Spy for Russia

Edward J. Snowden on Tuesday adamantly denied as absurd and "smears" the suggestion by the leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees that he might have been a Russian spy when he downloaded archives of classified National Security Agency documents and leaked them to journalists. In an interview with The New Yorker, Mr. Snowden declared that the accusation advanced in particular by Representative Mike Rogers, Republican of Michigan and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee - was "false," saying he had "clearly and unambiguously acted alone, with no assistance from anyone, much less a government."
Edward J. Snowden on Tuesday adamantly denied as absurd and "smears" the suggestion by the leaders of the House and...
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27 Dec 2013

TV Message by Snowden Says Privacy Still Matters

In a message broadcast Wednesday on British television, Edward J. Snowden, the former American security contractor, urged an end to mass surveillance, arguing that the electronic monitoring he has exposed surpasses anything imagined by George Orwell in "1984," a dystopian vision of an all-knowing state.
In a message broadcast Wednesday on British television, Edward J. Snowden, the former American security contractor,...
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21 Dec 2013

N.S.A. Dragnet Included Allies, Aid Groups and Business Elite

Secret documents reveal more than 1,000 targets of American and British surveillance in recent years, including the office of an Israeli prime minister, heads of international aid organizations, foreign energy companies and a European Union official involved in antitrust battles with American technology businesses.
Secret documents reveal more than 1,000 targets of American and British surveillance in recent years, including the...
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20 Dec 2013

Has Snowden Been Vindicated

Edward Snowden faces espionage charges for taking records from the National Security Agency to reveal a massive web of surveillance on Americans, foreigners and even foreign leaders. While some call him a traitor who has been hunted around the globe, others call him a hero for revealing the shocking extent of snooping in the name of national security. But with a presidential panel calling for an end to the agency s collection of all Americans' phone-call records, two days after a federal judge called that program, which was revealed by Snowden, "almost Orwellian" and probably unconstitutional, can Snowden now be called a whistleblower and not a scoundrel?
Edward Snowden faces espionage charges for taking records from the National Security Agency to reveal a massive web of...
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18 Dec 2013

Snowden Offers to Help Brazil With N.S.A. Inquiry

Edward J. Snowden, the former contractor for the National Security Agency now living temporarily in Russia, said in comments published on Tuesday that he was prepared to assist Brazilian investigations of United States spying in Brazil. But he said he could not speak freely until a country grants him permanent political asylum, which he requested from Brazil months ago.
Edward J. Snowden, the former contractor for the National Security Agency now living temporarily in Russia, said in...
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19 Nov 2013

Give Snowden Asylum in Germany

Almost every day, new information is released about how American and British intelligence agencies have monitored governments, embassies and the communications of whole societies. These revelations have provided us with a deep and terrifying insight into the uncontrolled power of intelligence agencies. Without Mr. Snowden, there wouldn t have been months of discussions in the German Bundestag, the European Parliament and the American Congress about better protection of citizens private and commercial communications. Mr. Snowden is paying a high price for having opened the eyes of the world. He can no longer lead a normal life.
Almost every day, new information is released about how American and British intelligence agencies have monitored...
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1 Nov 2013

Snowden Appeals to U.S. for Clemency

Edward J. Snowden, the fugitive American security contractor granted asylum by Russia, has appealed to Washington to stop treating him like a traitor for revealing that the United States has been eavesdropping on its allies, a German politician who met with Mr. Snowden said on Friday.
Edward J. Snowden, the fugitive American security contractor granted asylum by Russia, has appealed to Washington to...
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1 Sep 2011

All Leaked U.S. Cables Were Made Available Online as WikiLeaks Splintered

A WikiLeaks computer file that allows anyone to read every word of 251,287 leaked United States diplomatic cables by typing a password made public six months ago was posted online by mistake last year, potentially endangering human rights activists and other sources who spoke to American officials in confidence.
A WikiLeaks computer file that allows anyone to read every word of 251,287 leaked United States diplomatic cables by...
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31 Aug 2011

WikiLeaks Leaves Names of Diplomatic Sources in Cables

In a shift of tactics that has alarmed American officials, the antisecrecy organization WikiLeaks has published on the Web nearly 134,000 leaked diplomatic cables in recent days, more than six times the total disclosed publicly since the posting of the leaked State Department documents began last November.
In a shift of tactics that has alarmed American officials, the antisecrecy organization WikiLeaks has published on the...
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27 Apr 2011

WikiLeaks Loses Control of Some of Its Own Secrets

WikiLeaks, the Web site responsible for publicizing millions of state secrets in the last year, has tried to pick its media partners carefully. But the site has become such a large player in journalism that some of its secrets are no longer its own to control.
WikiLeaks, the Web site responsible for publicizing millions of state secrets in the last year, has tried to pick its...
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18 Jan 2011

Rudolf Elmer, Ex-Swiss Banker, Gives Data to WikiLeaks

A former Swiss bank executive said on Monday that he had given the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, details of more than 2,000 prominent individuals and companies that he contends engaged in tax evasion and other possible criminal activity.
A former Swiss bank executive said on Monday that he had given the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, details of more...
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11 Jan 2011

Privacy Law Is Outrun by Speed of Web’s Progress

As Internet services allowing people to store e-mails, photographs, spreadsheets and an untold number of private documents have surged in popularity, they have become tempting targets for law enforcement. That phenomenon became apparent over the weekend when it surfaced that the Justice Department had sought the Twitter account activity of several people linked to WikiLeaks, the antisecrecy group.
As Internet services allowing people to store e-mails, photographs, spreadsheets and an untold number of private...
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8 Jan 2011

U.S. Sends Warning to People Named in Cable Leaks

The State Department is warning hundreds of human rights activists, foreign government officials and businesspeople identified in leaked diplomatic cables of potential threats to their safety and has moved a handful of them to safer locations, administration officials said Thursday.
The State Department is warning hundreds of human rights activists, foreign government officials and businesspeople...
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30 Dec 2010

Al Akhbar, a Lebanese Paper, Aims at Provoking Readers

He succeeded. Earlier this month Al Akhbar became the only Arab newspaper to obtain its own substantial batch of WikiLeaks cables and gleefully cataloged various embarrassments to the region s kings, princes and politicians. Soon afterward, the paper s popular Web site came under a cyberattack that became a story in its own right, and provided more free publicity.
He succeeded. Earlier this month Al Akhbar became the only Arab newspaper to obtain its own substantial batch of...
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23 Dec 2010

Leaked Cable Stirs Tension Between Palestinian Sides

Tensions were rising on Wednesday between Fatah and Hamas, the two main Palestinian political factions, over a leaked American diplomatic cable and ongoing accusations by each side regarding the other s arrests, plans and statements.
Tensions were rising on Wednesday between Fatah and Hamas, the two main Palestinian political factions, over a leaked...
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21 Dec 2010

Prospect of WikiLeaks Dump Poses Problems for Regulators

Tens of thousands of its internal documents will be exposed on Wikileaks.org with no polite requests for executives response or other forewarnings. That was according to Forbes magazine, which interviewed Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, last month. The excerpt sparked a global cacophony of speculation that a bank perhaps Bank of America may be the next target of the inscrutable high-tech terrorist. (Such was Vice President Joseph R. Biden s description of Mr. Assange over the weekend.)
Tens of thousands of its internal documents will be exposed on Wikileaks.org with no polite requests for executives...
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15 Dec 2010

Singapore Lee Says Myanmar ‘Stupid’

A classified U.S. document released by WikiLeaks cites Singapore statesman Lee Kuan Yew as calling Myanmar's junta leaders "stupid" and "dense." A confidential briefing on a 2007 conversation between former Prime Minister Lee and U.S. officials was released by WikiLeaks this week.
A classified U.S. document released by WikiLeaks cites Singapore statesman Lee Kuan Yew as calling Myanmar's junta...
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13 Dec 2010

Facebook Wrestles With Free Speech and Civility

Facebook took down a page used by WikiLeaks supporters to organize hacking attacks on the sites of such companies, including PayPal and MasterCard; it said the page violated the terms of service, which prohibit material that is hateful, threatening, pornographic or incites violence or illegal acts. But it did not remove WikiLeaks s own Facebook pages.
Facebook took down a page used by WikiLeaks supporters to organize hacking attacks on the sites of such companies,...
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10 Dec 2010

Web Attackers Find a Rallying Cry in WikiLeaks

They got their start years ago as cyberpranksters, an online community of tech-savvy kids more interested in making mischief than political statements. But the coordinated attacks on major corporate and government Web sites in defense of WikiLeaks, which began on Wednesday and continued on Thursday, suggested that the loosely organized group called Anonymous might have come of age, evolving into one focused on more serious matters: in this case, the definition of Internet freedom.
They got their start years ago as cyberpranksters, an online community of tech-savvy kids more interested in making...
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9 Dec 2010

Hackers Attack Those Seen as WikiLeaks Enemies

Activists attacked sites of companies like Mastercard that took action against WikiLeaks; a counterattack on hackers sites followed.
Activists attacked sites of companies like Mastercard that took action against WikiLeaks; a counterattack on hackers...
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9 Dec 2010

Hackers Give Web Companies a Test of Free Speech

Facebook and Twitter face tough decisions around how they should handle situations as politically charged as the WikiLeaks developments. On Wednesday, anonymous hackers took aim at companies perceived to have harmed WikiLeaks after its release of a flood of confidential diplomatic documents. MasterCard, Visa and PayPal, which had cut off people s ability to donate money to WikiLeaks, were hit by attacks that tried to block access to the companies Web sites and services. To organize their efforts, the hackers have turned to sites like Facebook and Twitter. That has drawn these Web giants into the fray and created a precarious situation for them.
Facebook and Twitter face tough decisions around how they should handle situations as politically charged as the...
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9 Dec 2010

Karzai’s Response to Cables Relieves U.S.

A cache of leaked American diplomatic cables quoted Lt. Gen. Karl W. Eikenberry, the United States ambassador to Afghanistan, describing President Hamid Karzai s inability to grasp the most rudimentary principles of state-building.
A cache of leaked American diplomatic cables quoted Lt. Gen. Karl W. Eikenberry, the United States ambassador to...
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7 Dec 2010

Baltic States Lobby NATO

When fighting broke out between Russia and Georgia in August 2008, a shudder passed through the former Soviet Baltic republics. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania had painful memories of Soviet occupation and feared that a resurgent Russia might come after them next. They began lobbying NATO, which they had joined in 2004, for a formal defense plan.
When fighting broke out between Russia and Georgia in August 2008, a shudder passed through the former Soviet Baltic...
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7 Dec 2010

Daily Roundup of Jittery World

In Tunisia, a man was spotted sitting in a cafe, watching the road to the American ambassador s residence, before driving away in a gray Volkswagen. In Nigeria, extremists, possibly including a well-trained operative just arrived from Chad, were believed to be planning a massive terrorist attack. And Persian-language computer hacking sites had posted dangerous Trojan horse programs, suggesting how Iranian agents might attack the United States.
In Tunisia, a man was spotted sitting in a cafe, watching the road to the American ambassador s residence, before...
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7 Dec 2010

French Plans for Ship Upset U.S.

After France, one of America s closest allies, announced in February that it hoped to sell a Mistral a ship that carries helicopters and can conduct amphibious assaults to Russia, with the option to sell several more, American officials soon raised objections. The proposed transaction would be the largest sale by a Western country to Russia since the end of World War II. The commander of the Russian Navy has said that if his Black Sea fleet had had such a ship during the 2008 war with Georgia, it would have been able to carry out its operations in 40 minutes instead of 26 hours.
After France, one of America s closest allies, announced in February that it hoped to sell a Mistral a ship that carries...
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7 Dec 2010

U.S. Strains to Stop Arms Flow

Just a week after President Bashar al-Assad of Syria assured a top State Department official that his government was not sending sophisticated weapons to Hezbollah, the Obama administration lodged a confidential protest accusing Syria of doing precisely what it had denied doing.
Just a week after President Bashar al-Assad of Syria assured a top State Department official that his government was not...
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7 Dec 2010

Untangling a North Korean Missile Business

The Korea Mining and Development Corporation is a North Korean maker and seller of Scud missiles. According to diplomatic cables, it has ties with companies in Europe, Asia and Africa that supply it with parts, markets and financial pipelines. Related Article
The Korea Mining and Development Corporation is a North Korean maker and seller of Scud missiles. According to...
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6 Dec 2010

Arab States and Terror Funds

Nine years after the United States vowed to shut down the money pipeline that finances terrorism, senior Obama administration officials say they believe that many millions of dollars are flowing largely unimpeded to extremist groups worldwide, and they have grown frustrated by frequent resistance from allies in the Middle East, according to secret diplomatic dispatches.
Nine years after the United States vowed to shut down the money pipeline that finances terrorism, senior Obama...
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6 Dec 2010

Meddling Neighbors Torment Iraq

Saddam Hussein s Iraq was a regional menace that sent shudders through its neighbors. Today s Iraqi leaders are struggling to restrain the ambitions of the countries that share Iraq s porous borders, eye the country s rich resources and vie for influence.
Saddam Hussein s Iraq was a regional menace that sent shudders through its neighbors. Today s Iraqi leaders are...
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5 Dec 2010

Cables Depict Range of Obama Diplomacy

Now we know, from the granular picture of engagement-in-action that emerges from that trove of 250,000 WikiLeaks cables, many from the first 13 months of the Obama presidency. Mr. Obama s style seems to be: Engage, yes, but wield a club as well and try to counter the global doubts that he is willing to use it.
Now we know, from the granular picture of engagement-in-action that emerges from that trove of 250,000 WikiLeaks cables,...
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5 Dec 2010

China’s Battle With Google

As China ratcheted up the pressure on Google to censor its Internet searches last year, the American Embassy sent a secret cable to Washington detailing why top Chinese leaders had become so obsessed with the Internet search company: they were Googling themselves.
As China ratcheted up the pressure on Google to censor its Internet searches last year, the American Embassy sent a...
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5 Dec 2010

Clinton Praises Diplomats’ Work

It is in the government s interest, of course, to put a shine on what is clearly a bad situation, one that is likely to make diplomats work harder if anxious sources stop sharing information. And in some cases, the exposure showed diplomatic judgment to be seriously flawed: memos from the United States Embassy in Georgia, for instance, showed that diplomats relied so heavily on the Georgian government for information that they misjudged the country s actions in its war with Russia in 2008.
It is in the government s interest, of course, to put a shine on what is clearly a bad situation, one that is likely to...
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5 Dec 2010

PayPal Suspends WikiLeaks Account

As the release of hundreds of thousands of United States diplomatic cables brings more attention to WikiLeaks, commercial entities on the Internet have come under increased scrutiny for their business relationships with the organization. The e-commerce Web site Amazon and the domain name company EasyDNS.Net both severed their ties to WikiLeaks during the course of this week. And now they are being joined by PayPal, the online payment service.
As the release of hundreds of thousands of United States diplomatic cables brings more attention to WikiLeaks,...
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4 Dec 2010

Leaked Cables Stir Resentment and Shrugs

In the world of diplomacy, best known for ambiguity and opacity, the WikiLeaks organization says its function is to 'keep government open.' But, with the latest release of some 250,000 State Department cables, the outcome of WikiLeaks s actions could be far more ambiguous, closing doors to United States diplomats, turning candor to reticence and leaving many people leery of baring their souls and secrets to American officials.
In the world of diplomacy, best known for ambiguity and opacity, the WikiLeaks organization says its function is to...
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4 Dec 2010

Libya Delayed Nuclear Disposal

In the early morning of Nov. 25, 2009, a large Russian cargo plane left the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on a secret mission without its intended cargo. A small stockpile of spent nuclear fuel destined for disposal in Russia remained behind in a lightly guarded research center, apparently because of a fit of pique by Libya s mercurial leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. In a frantic cable back to Washington, American officials in Tripoli warned of dire consequences unless the carefully brokered deal to remove the 5.2 kilograms (11.4 pounds) of highly enriched uranium stored in seven five-ton casks was quickly resurrected.
In the early morning of Nov. 25, 2009, a large Russian cargo plane left the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on a secret mission...
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4 Dec 2010

No Strain in Ties to Gulf States After Leaks, Clinton Says

The United States and Bahrain sought to project a unified front on Friday, five days after the king of Bahrain was quoted in leaked American diplomatic cables as urging Washington to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons by whatever means necessary.
The United States and Bahrain sought to project a unified front on Friday, five days after the king of Bahrain was...
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4 Dec 2010

U.S. Helps Yemen Defy Al Qaeda

One Obama administration security official after another was visiting to talk about terrorism, and Yemen s redoubtable president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, seemed to be savoring his newfound leverage.
One Obama administration security official after another was visiting to talk about terrorism, and Yemen s redoubtable...
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4 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks Struggles to Stay Online After Cyberattacks

An American provider of Internet domain names withdrew its service to the WikiLeaks Web site after a barrage of attacks by hackers that threatened to destabilize its entire system, according to the provider and WikiLeaks itself on Friday. But within hours, WikiLeaks said it had registered its domain name in Switzerland.
An American provider of Internet domain names withdrew its service to the WikiLeaks Web site after a barrage of attacks...
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3 Dec 2010

American Diplomacy Revealed – as Good

Overall, my longstanding admiration for America s conscientious diplomats has been redoubled, not least for this underreported nugget on the turbulent Iranian election of 2009, contained in a cable of Jan. 12, 2010, from Dubai: While we don t know nor might not ever know the real June 12 vote count, it is clear that the turnout was at record high levels and that there was systematic vote count fraud (if in fact the votes were even counted) to ensure that Ahmadinejad won big in the first round.
Overall, my longstanding admiration for America s conscientious diplomats has been redoubled, not least for this...
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2 Dec 2010

WikiLeaks Chief Is Put on Interpol List

Interpol has placed Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing organization, on a so-called red notice wanted list to seek his arrest to answer allegations of sexual misbehavior by a Swedish prosecutor, according to the global police organization s Web site on Wednesday.
Interpol has placed Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing organization, on a so-called red notice...
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2 Dec 2010

Putin Criticizes U.S. Remarks on Russia

Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin responded sharply on Wednesday to criticism of Russia revealed in United States diplomatic cables published by the whistle-blowing Web site WikiLeaks, warning Washington not to interfere in Russian domestic affairs.
Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin responded sharply on Wednesday to criticism of Russia revealed in United States...
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2 Dec 2010

U.S. Cables Side With Georgia

Throughout the cold war and often in the years since, Western diplomats covering the Kremlin routinely relied on indirect and secondhand or thirdhand sources. Their cables were frequently laden with skepticism, reflecting the authors understanding of the limits of their knowledge and suspicion of official Russian statements.
Throughout the cold war and often in the years since, Western diplomats covering the Kremlin routinely relied on...
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2 Dec 2010

U.S. Fretted Over Canada’s Chip

In early 2008, American diplomats stationed in Ottawa turned on their television sets and were aghast: there was an onslaught of Canadian shows depicting nefarious American officials carrying out equally nefarious deeds in Canada, from planning to bomb Quebec to stealing Canadian water supplies.
In early 2008, American diplomats stationed in Ottawa turned on their television sets and were aghast: there was an...
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