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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 …
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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.
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, Washington Post, Open Left, Boing Boing, The Lede, 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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Power Line, International Business Times, CBC News, Boing Boing, Guardian and Balloon Juice, 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’
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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 …
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Israellycool, Guardian and RubinReports
New York Times:
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
Walter Shapiro / Politics Daily:
WikiLeaks, Secret Cables and the Downside of America's Security Mania
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Hullabaloo and The BRAD BLOG
New York Times:
Iran Fortifies Its Arsenal With the Aid of North Korea
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The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Dish, Guardian and Liberty Pundits Blog
John / Power Line:
More Wikileaks — Newspapers around the world have started publishing …
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Arabist.net, Telegraph, The League of Ordinary …, The Gateway Pundit and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
How Twitter Scooped Wikileaks (Updated)
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Reuters:
Text of State Department letter to Wikileaks
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Vancouver Sun, Raw Story, Crooks and Liars and The Lede
The Huffington Post:
WikiLeaks U.S. Embassy Cables: New Documents Released
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Guardian, Crooks and Liars, Big Peace and News Desk, more at Mediagazer »
Associated Press:
Text of White House statement on WikiLeaks release
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CNN:
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
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
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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Lukas I. Alpert / NY Daily News:
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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Jihad Watch
Dan Snierson / EW.com:
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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Associated Press:
Leslie Nielsen, Actor, Dies at 84 — FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Leslie Nielsen, who went from drama to inspired bumbling as a hapless doctor in “Airplane!” and the accident-prone detective Frank Drebin in “The Naked Gun” comedies, has died. He was 84. — His agent John S. Kelly …
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Michelle Malkin and The New Republic
Anita Gates / New York Times:
Leslie Nielsen, Actor, Dies at 84
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Spiegel Online:
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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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
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
The Obsession With Liberals' Obsession With Sarah Palin — Charles Krauthammer has lambasted the mainstream (i.e. liberal) media for its obsession with Sarah Palin. — That goes double for liberal entertainers and academics, and triple for the left-blogosphere, which is nuts-in-the-head …
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NewsBusters.org blogs, The Reaction, The Other McCain and theblogprof
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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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