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New York Times - A Note to Readers: The Decision to Publish Diplomatic Documents
NYTimes ^ | 11/28/2010

Posted on 11/28/2010 3:27:49 PM PST by markomalley

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. The New York Times and a number of publications in Europe were given access to the material several weeks ago and agreed to begin publication of articles based on the cables Sunday online. The Times believes that the documents serve an important public interest, illuminating the goals, successes, compromises and frustrations of American diplomacy in a way that other accounts cannot match.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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To: markomalley
A Note to Readers:...

The Times still has some readers: a handful of upper west side marxist lesbians, Al Gore, and Joe Biden.
41 posted on 11/28/2010 4:21:25 PM PST by NightOfTheLivingDems
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To: markomalley
These are cables long before Wikileaks announced they intended to publish theirs. What we have here folks from the NY Slimes is self selected cables in an attempt to cushion the Obama blow.
42 posted on 11/28/2010 4:21:51 PM PST by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

bookmark


43 posted on 11/28/2010 4:22:48 PM PST by sissyjane (Did you plug the hole yet Daddy????)
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To: fightinJAG
TRAITORS.

That term lost its meaning when Jane Fonda went to Hanoi and nothing was done about it.

44 posted on 11/28/2010 4:24:13 PM PST by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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To: cycle of discernment
The U.S. branded France’s President Nicola Sarkozy an ‘emperor with no clothes’ with a ‘thin-skinned and authoritarian personal style’,

Sez the American emperor with no clothes with the thin-skinned and authoritarian personal style.

45 posted on 11/28/2010 4:24:28 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("I'd rather lose fighting for the right cause than win fighting for the wrong cause." - Jim DeMint)
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To: markomalley

If Wiki is posting all this to internet files, does it really make any difference if the NYT publishes it or not?

I realize the NYT has been a bad outfit for decades, but what difference does their involvement make here?


46 posted on 11/28/2010 4:26:29 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: markomalley
“The Times has taken care to exclude, in its articles and in supplementary material, in print and online, information that would endanger confidential informants or compromise national security. The Times’s redactions were shared with other news organizations and communicated to WikiLeaks, in the hope that they would similarly edit the documents they planned to post online.”

Gee, I didn't know The NY Slimes cared so much? /sarc

47 posted on 11/28/2010 4:26:47 PM PST by tobyhill
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To: cycle of discernment
It is set to lead to international calls for Mrs Clinton to resign.

So it's not all bad news.

48 posted on 11/28/2010 4:27:03 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("I'd rather lose fighting for the right cause than win fighting for the wrong cause." - Jim DeMint)
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To: huldah1776

They don’t have great security in their building. Basically just scan a badge and go thru the turnstyle. A couple of guards there. They may be able to stop the elevators, who knows.


49 posted on 11/28/2010 4:31:40 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: markomalley

Isn’t it rather hypocritical to lambast the Times for publishing this material when we’re all reading it here on Free Republic as well?


50 posted on 11/28/2010 4:31:40 PM PST by Jedidah
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To: nascarnation

I’ve wondered this, too. Can’t the editor or owners or someone at the NY Times be charged with espionage?

The act of obtaining, delivering, transmitting, communicating, or receiving information about the national defense with an intent, or reason to believe, that the information may be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation. Espionage is a violation of 18 United States Code 792-798 and Article 106, Uniform Code ofMilitary Justice. See also counterintelligence.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.


51 posted on 11/28/2010 4:32:58 PM PST by Elyse (I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
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To: nascarnation

I’ve wondered this, too. Can’t the editor or owners or someone at the NY Times be charged with espionage?

The act of obtaining, delivering, transmitting, communicating, or receiving information about the national defense with an intent, or reason to believe, that the information may be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation. Espionage is a violation of 18 United States Code 792-798 and Article 106, Uniform Code ofMilitary Justice. See also counterintelligence.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.


52 posted on 11/28/2010 4:33:40 PM PST by Elyse (I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
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To: Elyse

sorry about the double post doh!


53 posted on 11/28/2010 4:34:18 PM PST by Elyse (I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
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To: JimSEA

same group too...who knew?


54 posted on 11/28/2010 4:34:40 PM PST by wardaddy ("Out Here" by Josh Thompson pretty much says it all to those who will never understand anyhow)
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To: nascarnation
It's just that the NYTs revels in America being hurt.

They would love to put a bullet in the nation's brain but if someone else does it first they at least want to be there to see the body fall.

Schadenfreude for America is their life.

55 posted on 11/28/2010 4:35:51 PM PST by Happy Rain ("GO GAMECOCKS--THE REAL USC!!!")
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To: markomalley
The Times also believes it will sell newspapers... and allow them to 'out' their enemies. Yep, journalists have to make calls about what to print and what not to print... Israel will get slammed if they can find anything on them...

If a conservative, white, middle-class straight man was running the leak site, the Times would be calling the guy a terrorist... especially if he was outing liberals groups ...

56 posted on 11/28/2010 4:41:22 PM PST by GOPJ ('Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power." Martin Buber /a Tea-nami's coming..)
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To: All

So they can find and leak all that and NOT the birth certificate and his university records??? How weird is that.


57 posted on 11/28/2010 4:43:03 PM PST by American Dream 246 (Open your eyes. Freedom is not a one day fight. Enemies of Freedom are legion.)
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To: Happy Rain

As much as I detest the New York Slime and other like minded rags, I want the traitors that leaked the materials in the first place. They should be drawn and quartered.


58 posted on 11/28/2010 4:43:26 PM PST by animal172 (Where are you America?)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Who oh who would benefit from all these leaked docs??

First I say look to had the OPPORTUNITY to leak them. The “leaker” for the Mil docs was supposed to be some fruitcake DADT Army dude, just how would one guy get all the access? next to impossible on his own.

Then comes diplomatic correspondence by the thousands. I would think only someone “inside the State Dept” would have this access and again it seems im possible that one person could have this much access.

The fingers point directly to nobama and most likely at his boss sorass’ direction.

When they had all 3 branches, chances of anyone actually investigating were zero. Hope the new Pubby House investigates and exposes all.


59 posted on 11/28/2010 4:43:26 PM PST by dusttoyou ("Progressives" are wee-weeing all over themselves, Foc nobama)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

One would easily question who at the Times had the proper experience and training, let alone authority to know just exactly what would or not entail putting our troops and nation at risk. Unless of course they were hooked up to the red phone in Bos administration....which if that is the case we are certainly in a whole heap of trouble! Didn’t seem to be it could get worse with everything coming down...just one more huge drop in the bucket it does seem now.


60 posted on 11/28/2010 4:47:42 PM PST by caww
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