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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.
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Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
Guardian editor says they gave cables to the NY Times — New York Times editors said Sunday that although the paper's reporters had been digging through WikiLeaks trove of 250,000 State Department cables for “several weeks,” the online whistleblower wasn't the source of the documents.
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
Pvictorwins / CBS New York:
King: WikiLeaks Release ‘Worse Than Military Attack’ — WASHINGTON (AP/1010 WINS/WCBS 880) — Hundreds of thousands of State Department documents leaked Sunday revealed a hidden world of backstage international diplomacy, divulging candid comments from world leaders and detailing occasional …
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Walter Shapiro / Politics Daily:
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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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.
Scott / Power Line:
The Times then and now — The New York Times is participating …
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David Leigh / Guardian:
How 250,000 US embassy cables were leaked
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Nick Allen / Telegraph:
Bradley Manning: The prime suspect of giving files to WikiLeaks
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Spiegel Online:
US Diplomats Told to Spy on Other Countries at United Nations
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Chris Fenn / Guardian:
US embassy cables: browse the database
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Simon Jenkins / Guardian:
WikiLeaks: The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
U.S. Expands Role of Diplomats in Spying
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Anita Gates / New York Times:
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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Kimberly Nordyke / Hollywood Reporter:
Leslie Nielsen Dies at Age 84 — Leslie Nielsen in “Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad” … UPDATED — Leslie Nielsen, the actor best known for starring in such comedies as Airplane! and the Naked Gun film franchise, died Sunday of complications from pneumonia at a hospital near his home in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He was 84.
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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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Omri Ceren / Mere Rhetoric:
Wikileaks - Anti-Israel Foreign Policy Experts Got Saudi Arabia, Other Arab Countries 100% Backward On Iran Attack — By — It didn't get nearly as much play as it should have, but Obama's June 2009 meeting with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah ended with the monarch flying into a tirade …
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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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Haaretz:
WikiLeaks exposé: Barak warned strike on Iran was viable until end of 2010
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The Beirut Spring … and Guardian
King Abdullah / Guardian:
US embassy cables: Saudi king's advice for Barack Obama
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Israel Matzav, Fox Nation and Danger Room
Los Angeles Times:
Mixed portraits of Oregon terrorism suspect — Classmates of Mohamed Osman Mohamud, accused of trying to detonate a bomb at a Christmas tree-lighting, describe a typical teen. Fire ravages an Islamic center in Corvallis, Ore. — The Salman Al-Farisi Islamic Center in Corvallis, Ore. …
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Associated Press:
Fire set at mosque where terror suspect worshipped
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Lukas I. Alpert / NY Daily News:
Neighbors say wannabe Christmas bomber Mohamed Mohamud embraced …
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Matt Welch / Hit & Run:
Thomas L. Friedman: Nation-Building at Home Just as Crucial a Slogan Now as it Was 14 Columns Ago — Today's Thomas L. Friedman column is a familiar if distasteful brew of what-Americans-want ventriloquism and public policy by bumper sticker. Sample: … And so on.
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Got to Get This Right — On Nov. 19, Rasmussen Reports published …
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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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Richard Wolffe / Los Angeles Times:
Obama could learn from Bush — The president could solve his communications problem by studying how his predecessor did it. — The day before his party's shellacking in this month's elections, President Obama sat down with his economic team to examine the single most important issue for voters across the country: jobs.
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Rachel E. Stassen-Berger / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Who's who in Dayton-Emmer recount? — Several players in this year's cast played roles in the 2008 Senate recount drama. — Gone are the days of nasty political ads, stump speeches and campaign managers. — The Minnesota governor's race now features recounts, court hearings, canvassing boards and lots and lots of lawyers.
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Deutsche Welle:
Swiss voters approve harsher deportation plan — Swiss voters have approved a far-right initiative to automatically expel foreign residents convicted of serious crimes, according to poll results. — Swiss national broadcaster SF1 said 52.9 percent of voters backed the initiative in Sunday's referendum …
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