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Adam Rosenfeld

WikiLeaks Archive - A Selection From the Cache of Diplomatic Dispatches - Interactive F... - 0 views

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  • A small number of names and passages in some of the cables have been removed (———) by The New York Times to protect diplomats’ confidential sources, to keep from compromising American intelligence efforts or to protect the privacy of ordinary citizens.
    • Adam Rosenfeld
      Adam Rosenfeld on 20 Mar 11
       
      In the "About" section, wikileaks says "from time to time we may remove or significantly delay the publication of some identifying details from original documents to protect life and limb of innocent people." While it doesn't appear the cable wires put anyone's life in immediate danger, it it interesting to note that the Times additionally censors the documents... Why didn't wikileaks censor these documents already, or why did the Times feel the need to censor them when wikileaks didn't?
  • Below are a selection of the documents from a cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. A small number of names and passages in some of the cables have been removed (———) by The New York Times to protect diplomats’ confidential sources, to ke
Adam Rosenfeld

WikiLeaks diplomatic documents put educators in a quandary - Page 2 - Philly.com - 0 views

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  • "There is an ethical and moral dimension here that cannot be ignored," he says. "Some people have suffered because of this [leak]; they may even be dead." Danspeckgruber says there is evidence that a number of foreign sources cited in the cables have been punished, perhaps even executed, for passing on information to U.S. diplomats.
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      Adam Rosenfeld on 20 Mar 11
       
      This professor touches on the ethical dilemma of even reading the documents
  • "It has been made clear by the government," she says by e-mail, "that it would be unwise for those who will need security clearances to avail themselves of the cables."Vladeck lays it out: "The government routinely asks potential employees whether they have had access to classified information in the past."If you've read the WikiLeaks material, he says, "you'd either have to say yes, and admit you've broken the law, or you'd have to lie." Not advisable, given the screening process, which often includes a polygraph test.
  • few weeks later," says Meunier, "one student in the [college military program] ROTC found out from his chain of command that reading the actual cables could prevent one from getting a security clearance."
Lee Stromberg

WikiLeaks documents: five world leaders disparaged by US diplomats - Italy's Silvio Ber... - 0 views

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  • The huge cache of diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks contain frank assessments of many top geopolitical players – and predictions as to how their personalities might affect US politics.
  • Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
     
    Interesting comments and opinions of world leaders.  previously confidential material now seem's like the US's underwear when referring to international relations
Nicole Wallace

WikiLeaks: Japan Was Warned About Nuclear Plant Safety, Cables Show - 0 views

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  • The Japanese government has said it is doing all it can to contain the crisis at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, which was critically damaged in last week's earthquake. But according to U.S. diplomatic papers released by WikiLeaks, that atomic disaster might have been avoided if only the government had acted on earlier safety warnings.
    • Lee Stromberg
      Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
       
      I read Tyler's "irrelevant but relevant" article on the problems of nuclear power reactors/how they work/their safety and decided to try and find a direct connection with Wikileaks.
  • The overall picture that emerges from the cables is of a government afraid of interfering with the powerful nuclear industry, which supplies about one-third of Japan's electricity.
  • Another cable sent from Tokyo to Washington in October 2008 alleged that the government had hidden past nuclear accidents. In 2008, Taro Kono -- a senior member of Japan's lower house of parliament -- told U.S. diplomats that the ministry of economy, trade and industry was "covering up nuclear accidents, and obscuring the true costs and problems associated with the nuclear industry."
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  • . But according to U.S. diplomatic papers released by WikiLeaks, that atomic disaster might have been avoided if only the government had acted on earlier safety warnings.
    • Nicole Wallace
      Nicole Wallace on 21 Mar 11
       
      Now that there is the potential for private documents to be leaked because of the founding of Wikileaks, will this prevent governments, corportations etc. from doing things behind the public's back? If Japan had known that papers would be revealed demonstrating that the disaster could have been avoided would they have gone to greater lengths to have tried to prevent the atmomic disaster?
Adam Rosenfeld

U.S. ambassador to Mexico resigns - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • The move by Ambassador Carlos Pascual comes amid tension between the United States and Mexico after a U.S. diplomatic cable released last fall by the WikiLeaks website quoted U.S. officials talking about "widespread corruption" in Mexican security agencies and "a dysfunctionally low level of collaboration."
  • Adam Rosenfeld on 20 Mar 11
     
    Impact of wikileaks!!!! US Ambassador to Mexico to step down because of tension created by the diplomatic cables released by wikileaks.
Adam Rosenfeld

Publication of WikiLeaks cable leads to calls for Indian prime minister's resignation - 0 views

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  • Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, responding to the attacks in parliament, described the leaked cable as "a correspondence between a sovereign government and its mission abroad, and it enjoys diplomatic immunity. Therefore, it is not possible for the government to either confirm it or deny it."
    • Adam Rosenfeld
      Adam Rosenfeld on 20 Mar 11
       
      Highly interesting here to see how India, and other nations, are dealing with the leaked documents...namely India's neither confirm nor deny stance.
  • he opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said the report brought "shame to the nation.
  • report brought "shame to the nation." Both houses of parliament were adjourned amid a din of shouting.
Nicholas Adams

Julian Assange tells students that the web is the greatest spying machine ever - 1 views

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  • Nicholas Adams on 19 Mar 11
     
    The WikiLeaks founder says he believes the internet is not a technology that favors freedom of speech but rather spying. Assange disagrees with reports that Facebook and Twitter play a role in the unrest in the Middle East. He offers his reasoning why revolts cannot be started via Facebook, Twitter, or other social networking sites: they can all be used to round-up principal participants, so that they may be beaten, interrogated or incarcerated. Perhaps most disturbingly, he blames leaked diplomatic cables for the unrest currently in the Middle-East being that the United States had decided that in a necessary event, they would militarily back the Tunisian military over the political regime and would mobilize against neighboring countries if need be. There were further cables that also led to US disapproval of Mubarak in Egypt.
Adam Rosenfeld

WikiLeaks diplomatic documents put educators in a quandary - Philly.com - 0 views

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  • "I personally think what Assange did was reprehensible," says Frank Plantan, codirector of the international-relations program at the University of Pennsylvania, echoing all the scholars with whom we spoke. "However, I do not see an ethical issue in using the materials once leaked. . . . There is nothing better than real-world examples."
    • Adam Rosenfeld
      Adam Rosenfeld on 20 Mar 11
       
      First two highlights get into using the leaks as an educational tool...this section begins to address the ethical issue surrounding such use of leaked confidential documents
  • "Strictly speaking, even the most innocent, well-intentioned educators" may be prosecuted for "disseminating classified materials," he says. "But it's a long shot whether the government would decide to prosecute."
    • Adam Rosenfeld
      Adam Rosenfeld on 20 Mar 11
       
      Legal implications. (Educational, ethical, and legal addressed in this article)
  • Christina Paxson, dean of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, says universities should foster the free exchange of ideas."We feel strongly that faculty should have a lot of discretion for what is appropriate for their classes," she says.
Lee Stromberg

Cables released by WikiLeaks reveal U.S. concerns over South America - 0 views

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privacy south america

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      Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
       
      Not exactly sure how a president being on medication is information of top importance to the US but still an interesting article on progress towards governement transparency that wikileaks has made.
  • A slew of diplomatic messages from South America, where the United States has had testy relations with several leaders, reveal U.S. concerns over issues ranging from terrorism to a spat over oil between Argentina and Britain. But private messages released by WikiLeaks also highlight Washington's focus on the personalities on a continent largely ruled by leftist presidents, some of them European-style technocrats and others virulently anti-American populists.
Lee Stromberg

U.S. ambassador to Mexico quits amid WikiLeaks furor - Washington Times - 0 views

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    • Lee Stromberg
      Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
       
      This article really shows how leaks can control government relations.  I'm confused as to why this expressed frustration at mexican security of drug cartels could considered serious enough for Pascual's resignation of his post.  It almost seems like he was looking for an excuse to go?
  • Mr. Pascual’s resignation — less than two weeks after President Obama met with Mr. Calderon at the White House — appeared to be the biggest fallout yet from thousands of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables from around the world released by WikiLeaks. It was the first such public departure by a U.S. ambassador during the Obama administration.
Duncan Gillespie

WikiLeaks Archive - Haggling Over Guantánamo Detainees - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • American diplomats went looking for countries that were not only willing to take in former prisoners but also could be trusted to keep them under close watch. In a global bazaar of sorts, the American officials sweet-talked and haggled with their foreign counterparts in an effort to resettle the detainees who had been cleared for release but could not be repatriated for fear of mistreatment, the cables show.
    • Duncan Gillespie
      Duncan Gillespie on 20 Mar 11
       
      Wikileaks cables show US deperately trying to get rid of the remaining prisoners in Guantanamo.
Duncan Gillespie

Top 10 revelations from WikiLeaks cables - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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  • On Sunday, five international news outlets published a selection of more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables, provided by the website WikiLeaks.
    • Duncan Gillespie
      Duncan Gillespie on 20 Mar 11
       
      The scope of "calbegate" is massive. It would be interesting to learn how a news agency would pour through such a enourmous repository of documents.
  • According to one cable, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has repeatedly asked the U.S. to "cut off the head of the snake"
  • 3. The Obama administration offered sweeteners to try to get other countries to take Guantanamo detainees, as part of its (as yet unsuccessful) effort to close the prison. Slovenia, for instance, was offered a meeting with President Obama, while the island nation of Kiribati was offered incentives worth millions.
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  • 7. The State Department labeled Qatar the worst country in the region for counterterrorism efforts. The country's security services were "hesitant to act against known terrorists out of concern for appearing to be aligned with the U.S. and provoking reprisals," according to one cable.
  • Duncan Gillespie on 20 Mar 11
     
    Helpful to get a breakdown of the overall takeaways from some of the Wikileaks documents that an individual wouldn't be able to do on one's own.
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