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Wikileaks has a lot to say these days. Browse documents here

What do you guys think? (And apparently the main page doesn't seem to be working?

Edit:

the_future_modernes here shared different articles about this stuff.

Daughter of ETA: Blogging the Wikileaks releases at The Nation.

ETA again: The Guardian has a WONDERFUL map of the leaked cables.

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*whistles* Have you seen the spying on the UN article by the Guardian What the HELL!!!!!! Yo!!!

Dude, they were spying on us.

Which country is that again, sorry?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/29spy.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The new york times is ridic. First they say :

The cables, sent to embassies in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the United States mission to the United Nations, provide no evidence that American diplomats are actively trying to steal the secrets of foreign countries, work that is traditionally the preserve of spy agencies.

Then they say :

the more intrusive personal information diplomats are now being asked to gather could be used by the National Security Agency for data mining and surveillance operations. A frequent-flier number, for example, could be used to track the travel plans of foreign officials.

Several of the cables also asked diplomats for details about the telecommunications networks supporting foreign militaries and intelligence agencies.

And considering teh details that showed up in the guardians piece, yeah right!

Edited 2010-11-29 00:49 (UTC)

Lololol, yeah, I just scrolled down the part of Asunción there:

Here: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Wikileaks-US-probed-al-Qaida-presence-in-Paraguay/articleshow/7007548.cms

Huh. My computer does not like that link. *pouts* I'm kind of boggled at the idea that Paraguayian drug traffickers would be supoorting Middle East terrorism. What on earth woul be in it for them?

Really? That's weird

It says this:

MADRID: Washington ordered its diplomats in 2008 to probe a possible al-Qaida presence in a border zone between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, according to a confidential cable released Sunday by WikiLeaks.

The State Department cable on "reporting and collection needs" was sent to the US embassy in Asuncion.

It revealed a US concern about the possibility of al-Qaida and other terror networks operating in the Paraguay-Argentina-Brazil border zone, which has a history of immigration from Arab countries.

The cable requested intelligence on terror groups and supporters including al-Qaida and other Islamist militant groups such as Egypt's Jamaa Islamiya; Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip; and Lebanon's Hezbollah.

Washington requested any evidence of the terror groups raising cash through human smuggling, drug running and other criminal activities, and any details of training networks and ties with other groups.

The US State Department also wanted to know if Paraguay's government supported its declared "war on terror".

It asked Asuncion diplomats to report on Paraguay's plans to confront any terror threat, "including support for or opposition to the United States in the war against terrorism; Paraguay's position in regional and international fora, including support for or objection to US counterterrorism policies".

WikiLeaks published more 250,000 confidential cables, releasing them to the Spanish daily El Pais, Britain's The Guardian, The New York Times, France's Le Monde and the German magazine Der Spiegel.

The cable on Paraguay was published by The Guardian and made available on its Internet site.

And this kind of BS is not spying according to the NYT? Fuck em.

What the hell? My computer is blocking teh Times of India website. I shall have to file complaints tomorrow.

Maybe is your firewall blocking the site?

Not very computer savvy so no idea :/

OMG. The State Dept DID acknowlege that the Honduras coup was illegal!!! ANd they backed it just the same!!!

*as you can see, I'm on the Blogging teh Wikileaks by the Nation*

Watch the map on the Guardian! is amazing.

BBC breaks it down into key issues

*heads off to the Guardian map*

More about the Illegality of the Honduran coup from teh Narconews

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