Top Items:
New York Times:
Cables Obtained by WikiLeaks Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels — WASHINGTON — A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world …
Discussion:
TalkLeft, Hot Air, FP Passport, The Daily Dish, Gawker, Threat Level, NO QUARTER, Boing Boing, Runnin' Scared, The Wire, TechCrunch, The Agonist, Outside the Beltway, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, The Moderate Voice, msnbc.com, Philly.com, Hullabaloo, International Business Times, EconomicPolicyJournal.com and BLACKFIVE, more at Techmeme »
RELATED:
David Leigh / Guardian:
US cables leak sparks global diplomatic crisis — • More than 250,000 dispatches reveal US foreign strategies — • Diplomats ordered to spy on allies as well as enemies — • Hillary Clinton leads frantic ‘damage limitation’ — The United States was catapulted …
Spiegel Online:
A Superpower's View of the World — 251,000 State Department documents, many of them secret embassy reports from around the world, show how the US seeks to safeguard its influence around the world. It is nothing short of a political meltdown for US foreign policy.
Discussion:
Weekly Standard, The Nation, New York Times, Fox News, ReadWriteWeb, The Gateway Pundit, Guardian and Liberty Pundits Blog
New York Times:
A Note to Readers: The Decision to Publish Diplomatic Documents — The articles published today and in coming days are based on thousands of United States embassy cables, the daily reports from the field intended for the eyes of senior policy makers in Washington.
Discussion:
BBC, Associated Press, Boing Boing, Guardian, Balloon Juice and The Gateway Pundit, more at Mediagazer »
Guardian:
Saudi Arabia urges US attack on Iran to stop nuclear programme — • Embassy cables show Arab allies want strike against Tehran — • Israel prepared to attack alone to avoid its own 9/11 — • Iranian bomb risks ‘Middle East proliferation, war or both’
Discussion:
The Atlantic Online, Haaretz, The Daily Dish, The Gateway Pundit, Outside the Beltway, Weasel Zippers and Raw Story
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
How Twitter Scooped Wikileaks (Updated) — Twitter has out-leaked the leakers. About 12 hours before Wikileaks latest enormous leak was scheduled to be released, a Twitter user bought a copy of a German news magazine outlining the leak after it was placed on newstands too early.
Discussion:
The Wire, The Atlantic Online, Runnin' Scared, Mediaite and Gizmodo, more at Mediagazer »
Haaretz:
WikiLeaks exposé: Barak warned strike on Iran was viable until end of 2010 — Classified cable quotes State Dept. official as saying U.S. dismissed Netanyahu's warnings on Iran nukes as ploy. … A 2009 American government cable released Sunday by the WikiLeaks website quotes Defense …
Discussion:
Israellycool, Guardian, RubinReports and The BRAD BLOG
New York Times:
Iran Fortifies Its Arsenal With the Aid of North Korea — Secret American intelligence assessments have concluded that Iran has obtained a cache of advanced missiles, based on a Russian design, that are much more powerful than anything Washington has publicly conceded that Tehran has in its arsenal, diplomatic cables show.
Discussion:
The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Around the World, Distress Over Iran
Discussion:
The Atlantic Online, YID With LID, Commentary, Washington Post, Guardian and Israpundit
Reuters:
Text of State Department letter to Wikileaks
Discussion:
Crooks and Liars, Vancouver Sun, Raw Story and The Lede
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
WikiLeaks hacked hours before expected document release
Discussion:
The Politico, The Atlantic Online, ABCNEWS, The Gateway Pundit and Pundit Press, more at Techmeme »
John / Power Line:
More Wikileaks — Newspapers around the world have started publishing …
Discussion:
Guardian, The Gateway Pundit and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Marin Cogan / The Politico:
Presidential historian curses, calls Americans ‘lazy and obese’ — Presidential biographer Edmund Morris delivered one of the more, well, colorful lines on this week's Sunday morning shows. — On CBS's “Face the Nation,” host Bob Schieffer, anchoring an authors roundtable discussion …
Discussion:
LewRockwell.com Blog and Althouse
RELATED:
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The FBI successfully thwarts its own Terrorist plot — The FBI is obviously quite pleased with itself over its arrest of a 19-year-old Somali-American, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, who — with months of encouragement, support and money from the FBI's own undercover agents — allegedly attempted …
RELATED:
David Segal / New York Times:
A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web — SHOPPING online in late July, Clarabelle Rodriguez typed the name of her favorite eyeglass brand into Google's search bar. — In moments, she found the perfect frames — made by a French company called Lafont — on a Web site that looked snazzy and stood at the top of the search results.
Discussion:
Gawker, The Huffington Post, Althouse, Runnin' Scared, Bark Bark Woof Woof and The New Republic, more at Techmeme »
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
The Country's Wealthiest Men: No, Really, Tax Us More! — Not that this will matter to the congressional Republicans, whose agenda is not actually improving the economy nor listening to economists, the wealthiest 2%, or any other American, come to that. But the country's wealthiest men …
RELATED:
Joshua Miller / ABCNEWS:
Billionaires Buffett and Gates: Tax Us More!
Discussion:
NewsBusters.org blogs
King Abdullah / Guardian:
US embassy cables: Saudi king's advice for Barack Obama — NSC FOR JBRENNAN AND JDUNCAN; STATE FOR S/WCI — Classified By: Pol Counselor Lisa Carle, 1.4(b),(d) — (S) Saudi King Abdullah welcomed White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan, S/WCI Ambassador Williamson …
Discussion:
Danger Room and Fox Nation
Jeffrey Rosen / Washington Post:
Why the TSA pat-downs and body scans are unconstitutional — The protest on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving was called National Opt-Out Day, and its organizers urged air travelers to refuse the Transportation Security Administration's full-body scanning machines. — But many appeared to have opted out of opting out.
Discussion:
The League of Ordinary … and The Volokh Conspiracy
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Got to Get This Right — On Nov. 19, Rasmussen Reports published results from a national telephone poll that showed that 47 percent of America's likely voters said the nation's “best days are in the past,” 37 percent said they are in the future. Sixteen percent were undecided.
Discussion:
Hit & Run, NewsBusters.org blogs and iOwnTheWorld.com
Molly Hottle / Oregonian:
Fire was intentionally set at Islamic Center in Corvallis where alleged bomb plot suspect attended — A fire reported early this morning at the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center in Corvallis where Portland bomb plot suspect Mohamed Osman Mohamud sometimes attended is being called arson.
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers, Patterico's Pontifications and Teddy Partridge's myFDL diary
Senior Data Journalist, NY — 
Manager - Publishing Editorial, Manila — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Senior California Politics Reporter, CA — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Team Editor - Opinion, ON — 
Assistant Correspondent, DC — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
Lead Business Reporter, TN — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
City Correspondent, London — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Senior Political Reporter, DC — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Editor, Remote US — 
Business Reporter, WA — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
