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All- Found this event in GU Weekly Events Email - 4 views

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BBC News - Bradley Manning wins support from Welsh MP and friends - 0 views

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  • he issue of Pte Manning's treatment has been raised with President Obama He said he had received assurances that the terms of Pte Manning's confinement were "appropriate".
    • Lee Stromberg
      Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
       
      That probably couldn't get any more vague
    • Lee Stromberg
      Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
       
      That probably couldn't get any more vague
  • Bradley Manning's detention at a high security US military prison has seen protests taken to the White House
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      Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
       
      Has anyone seen this downtown?
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      Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
       
      Has anyone seen this downtown?
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      Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
       
      Manning gains Welsh support and his situation strains governmental popularity both in the US and UK
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  • But there has been mounting concern about the conditions he is being held in at a military prison.
  • She added: "While I consider myself a friend of the Americans, I think it ill becomes them to treat one of their own soldiers in this way before he has been convicted, before he has been tried."
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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
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Cables released by WikiLeaks reveal U.S. concerns over South America - 0 views

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

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  • Mr. Pascual also may have ruffled feathers in the Mexican government and Mr. Calderon’s National Action Party by dating the daughter of Francisco Rojas, the congressional leader of the former longtime ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. Mexican officials and the U.S. Embassy have declined to comment on that matter.
    • Lee Stromberg
      Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
       
      Rather entertaining/interesting complication
  • Other U.S. Embassy cables released since have reported jealousies and a lack of coordination between various Mexican security forces.Their release has marred a relationship that both the United States and Mexico for years have touted as being stronger than ever.
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      Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
       
      It seems that this release of leaks is a culmination of a bunch of material which strains the relationship between the two neighbors.  Pascual's resignation is making more sense
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U.S. ambassador to Mexico quits amid WikiLeaks furor - Washington Times - 0 views

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      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.
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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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