The United States was catapulted into a worldwide diplomatic crisis today, with the leaking to the Guardian and other international media of more than 250,000 classified cables from its embassies, many sent as recently as February this year.
At the start of a series of daily extracts from the US embassy cables – many designated “secret” – the Guardian can disclose that Arab leaders are privately urging an air strike on Iran and that US officials have been instructed to spy on the UN leadership. These two revelations alone would be likely to reverberate around the world. But the secret dispatches which were obtained by WikiLeaks, the whistleblowers’ website, also reveal Washington’s evaluation of many other highly sensitive international issues.
These include a shift in relations between China and North Korea, high level concerns over Pakistan’s growing instability and details of clandestine US efforts to combat al-Qaida in Yemen.
Among scores of disclosures that are likely to cause uproar, the cables detail:
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It's hard to believe Assange would still exist if there was any truly top secret information available. Nor would there be public hand-wringing by the government. Much of the information Wikileaks has was information made available for download to field intelligence officers – certainly not for public consumption but hardly "top secret"
Methinks the media is hyping this fluff to increase their sales.
Where did they get the infor. Must be a lot of whisle blowers in a lot of embassies, or maybe spies.
Thursday is apparently going to be the fun day for us – it's when we discover what they think of Canada and our national inferiority complex … we've always known they thought that, this will just provide the proof.
CNN was interviewing someone from the new York Times. He said they were working with Wikileaks to decide what to highlight and what to bury on information. When asked why they were cooperating with Wikileaks… to protect the USA he answered.