Michael Rennie and Benno Hansen deserve a big thank-you for trawling through the Wikileaks Cablegate website for information on climate change geo-politics.
Michael is posting on Think About It and Benno’s document collection can be found at Scribd.
With DOS attacks being more frequently reported by Wikileaks during the last week and Amazon terminating its hosting service to the website, it may be that second party reports such as these will eventually become the blogosphere’s primary source on this subject.
While website connection problems drag on, Wikileaks’ Twitter account continues to offer intriguing hints on other international issue such as:
WikiLeaks reveals US Nuclear Weapons in the Netherlands http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/11/09BERLIN1433.html
Mark Stephens of Finers Stephens Innocent, who represents Julian Assange in the UK, is a trustee)
26 November
Julian Assange, Editor in Chief, WikiLeaks
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US Ambassador to London, Louis Susman
27 November
Harold Hongju Koh, Legal Adviser, United States Department of State
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Julian Assange, Editor in Chief, WikiLeaks
28 November
Julian Assange, Editor in Chief, WikiLeaks
to
US Ambassador to London, Louis Susman
It is interesting to note that in this exchange a U.S. Government (increasingly careless of international law and human rights) asserted that release of the diplomatic cables would:
Place at risk the lives of countless innocent individuals – from journalists to human rights activists and bloggers to soldiers to individuals providing information to further peaceand security.....
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