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 ...
the magnitude of this leak event is simply mind-boggling. This is coordinated with the overt intention of destroying the United States, and I do wonder if there is a nation-state behind this (china or russia).
No one will ever trust communication with the United States again, and who knows what the consequences of that will be, not to mention what policies are changed negatively just because of this leak.
If so, our State Department is dumber than I thought.
There are commercial products that can encrypt with up to 4000 bit encryption keys--basically, unbreakable.
My company encrypts data sent over the internet.
What's with our government? Even if these are "secure" diplomatic wires, I would encrypt these emails.
Of course, I know this was an inside job--some employee with access dumped this to Wikileaks--so encryption probably wouldn't have mattered.
All you need is an old purple mimeo machine, and you too can claim 'freedom of the press' when committing treason.
The Daily Mail UK is a site which has imposed copyright restrictions upon Free Republic which demand that all material from the Daily Mail be properly excerpted, attributed and linked.
And as noted in your post, you typed that you had “excerpted” the article.
However your “excerpted” post contained 2,046 words out of an article just 2,790 words long which is not even close to being a proper excerpt. In fact it was approximately 7 times the length of what might be considered a “Fair Use” excerpt.
Posting 3/4 of an article from a copyright restricted site places Free Republic in jeopardy of a copyright infringing lawsuit.
Please do not do that again.
We know the verdict now. The Obama Administration is the culprit of the document releases.
The publishers of the NYT should be charged with treason!!!
In many cases, the NY Times has gone out of their way to damage American interests. This is not one of them for the following reasons:
1) The information is available at wikileaks to anyone who takes the time to look
2) Multiple news organizations inside and outside the US were provided this info
The NY Times publishing this info does not further the damage already done by wikileaks.
The people the US should be focusing on:
1) Wikileaks: why is this organization still able to operate when it continually does significant damage to US interests including causing injury/death to those who assist the US???
2) The person who leaked this info.
3) The people responsible for the security of this info who did such a poor job. If it was this easy to compromise, you can be assured that foreign governments had already done so.
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.
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No kidding...the pot calling the kettle black.
What part of George Soros' Open Society don't you understand, America?
OK, then who spilled the diplomatic beans? Hitlery? Probably not as am hearing that some are not flattering to klintoons.
Good Lord help us. The Times should be called the New York Socialist Manifesto.
No worry. The news organizations mentioned HAVE ALREADY censored and sanitized the material, so as to not damage any of their favorite interests or individuals.
So these weighty revelations may be little, compared to what is NOT being published.
... This and all the Internet Domains being seized by the Feds makes me wonder how long we will be privileged to be here at FR!!
Looks like Obama killed two birds with one stone.
Don’t like this, don’t like this at all. This crud is all too high for a single person to snag files. Has to be someone very high up.
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