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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 …
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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.
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 — • Saudi king urged Washington to bomb Iran — Read the full coverage of the US embassy cables
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New York Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Open Left, The Lede, Boing Boing, Little Green Footballs, The Staggers and Pajamas Media
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.
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Yahoo! News, Power Line, Guardian, International Business Times, CBC News, Boing Boing and Balloon Juice, more at Mediagazer »
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WikiLeaks, Secret Cables and the Downside of America's Security Mania … The embarrassing release of more than a quarter million confidential U.S. diplomatic cables Sunday by WikiLeaks is certain to spawn a hand-wringing national debate over why America cannot keep its secrets.
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Big Peace, Washington Post and Hullabaloo, more at Mediagazer »
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Around the World, Distress Over Iran — In late May 2009, Israel's defense minister, Ehud Barak, used a visit from a Congressional delegation to send a pointed message to the new American president. — In a secret cable sent back to Washington, the American ambassador to Israel …
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The Daily Dish, YID With LID, Guardian, Commentary, Washington Post, The Atlantic Online and Israpundit
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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 …
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Guardian and The BRAD BLOG
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Saudi Arabia urges US attack on Iran to stop nuclear programme
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Haaretz, Outside the Beltway, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Dish, Weasel Zippers, The Atlantic Online and Raw Story
Nick Allen / Telegraph:
Bradley Manning: The prime suspect of giving files to WikiLeaks
Bradley Manning: The prime suspect of giving files to WikiLeaks
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Daily Mail, TalkLeft, Swampland and The Reaction
Omri Ceren / Mere Rhetoric:
Wikileaks - Anti-Israel Foreign Policy Experts Got Saudi Arabia …
Wikileaks - Anti-Israel Foreign Policy Experts Got Saudi Arabia …
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The Atlantic Online, Israellycool, Guardian, RubinReports and Doug Ross
John / Power Line:
More Wikileaks — Newspapers around the world have started publishing …
More Wikileaks — Newspapers around the world have started publishing …
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Arabist.net, Telegraph, The League of Ordinary …, Guardian, TechCrunch and The Gateway Pundit, more at Techmeme »
King Abdullah / Guardian:
US embassy cables: Saudi king's advice for Barack Obama
US embassy cables: Saudi king's advice for Barack Obama
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Fox Nation and Danger Room
New York Times:
Iran Fortifies Its Arsenal With the Aid of North Korea
Iran Fortifies Its Arsenal With the Aid of North Korea
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The Gateway Pundit, Guardian, The Daily Dish and Liberty Pundits Blog
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
How Twitter Scooped Wikileaks (Updated)
How Twitter Scooped Wikileaks (Updated)
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Reuters:
Text of State Department letter to Wikileaks
Text of State Department letter to Wikileaks
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Vancouver Sun, Raw Story, Crooks and Liars and The Lede
Associated Press:
Text of White House statement on WikiLeaks release
Text of White House statement on WikiLeaks release
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CNN:
U.S. documents obtained by WikiLeaks posted despite site problem
U.S. documents obtained by WikiLeaks posted despite site problem
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Moe Lane, Pajamas Media, Weasel Zippers and This Just In
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
WikiLeaks hacked hours before expected document release
WikiLeaks hacked hours before expected document release
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The Politico, The Atlantic Online, ABCNEWS, The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
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Leslie Nielsen, ‘Airplane!’ and ‘Naked Gun’ star, dies at 84 — Leslie Nielsen, who dazzled with deadpan in The Naked Gun and Airplane!, passed away on Sunday at a hospital near his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he was being treated for pneumonia, according to the New York Times. He was 84.
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Leslie Nielsen, Actor, Dies at 84 — Leslie Nielsen, the Canadian-born actor who in middle age tossed aside three decades of credibility in dramatic and romantic roles to make a new, far more successful career as a comic actor in films like “Airplane!” and the “Naked Gun” series, died on Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 84.
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Associated Press:
Leslie Nielsen, Actor, Dies at 84
Leslie Nielsen, Actor, Dies at 84
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Michelle Malkin and The New Republic
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Media Matters Lies About Media Coverage of Sarah Palin North Korea Slip — Democratic Party front group Media Matters for America has published yet another attack on Republican Sarah Palin. This one a dishonest portrayal of media coverage of her recent slip of the tongue regarding the crisis on the Korean peninsula.
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Cubachi, Conservatives4Palin.com, iOwnTheWorld.com, Media Matters for America and Agence France Presse
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
The Obsession With Liberals' Obsession With Sarah Palin
The Obsession With Liberals' Obsession With Sarah Palin
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The FBI successfully thwarts its own Terrorist plot — (updated below) — 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 …
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Neighbors say wannabe Christmas bomber Mohamed Mohamud embraced extremism after parents split — Arsonists set fire Sunday to the Oregon Islamic center that the wannabe Christmas-tree bomber had attended, authorities said. — The fire was reported about 2:25 a.m. at the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center …
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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 …
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NewsBusters.org blogs, LewRockwell.com Blog and Althouse
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US Diplomats Told to Spy on Other Countries at United Nations — The US State Department gave its diplomats instructions to spy on other countries' representatives at the United Nations, according to a directive signed by Hillary Clinton. Diplomats were told to collect information about e-mail accounts …
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tundratabloids.com and Balloon Juice
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David Carr / New York Times:
A Media False Alarm Over the T.S.A. — If a squadron of mad scientists surrounded by supercomputers gathered in a laboratory to try to conjure a single news topic that would blow up large, they could not touch the T.S.A. pat-down story. — It began with a Drudge Report link to a video …
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Diplomatic Cables Reveal US Doubts about Turkey's Government — The leaked diplomatic cables reveal that US diplomats are skeptical about Turkey's dependability as a partner. The leadership in Ankara is depicted as divided and permeated by Islamists. — US diplomats have grave doubts about Turkey's dependability.
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