WikiLeaks: NYT Briefed White House, Now U.S. Briefing Foreign Gov'ts Ahead Of State Dep't Memo Dump

[Hissyspit]

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NYT briefed the Whitehouse on Monday over Embassy Files: Now we see every tinpot dictator in the world briefed prior to release.
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Sky reports US Ambassador visits Downing Street in advance of Wikileaks document release
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Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd briefed by Hillary Clinton on Wikileaks, according to SMH
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Canada briefed by US Ambassador according to CBC
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Denmark briefed by US Ambassador on WikiLeaks according to Danish press
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Norway briefed by US on WikiLeaks according to NRK (state TV)
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[madrchsod]

1. this will be interesting....

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

2. HA HA HA HA HA HA

[Hissyspit]

3. What's so funny?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. possibly the image of Obama's team rushing in to

repair the damage done by Team Bush? And not only do we have to pick up all the pieces, find a suitable glue, put each piece where it belongs, we have to warn other nations, in advance, why the upcoming embarrassments can be explained away.

Obama's had to clean up after them how many times?

DOJ
Health Care
Finance
Economy
Iraq
global climate change

Sheesh, anyone who would want that job has to crazy. Sorry, Mr. President, but who would actively accept all the grief that comes with the job?

[Pavulon]

6. The guy you voted for and the person who has to run the nation.

I mean we could all leave and just leave those who cant fucked, you know, like what happened in Katrina.

[JDPriestly]

16. Obama has to clean up after Bush but somehow never gets the

courage to make Bush pay for any of the really bad things that his administration did like torture people, like increase surveillance in violation of the Constitution and FISA.

Just cleaning up after the Bush administration without ever letting the public know just how bad it was is really asking to be treated without respect. I never.

Why is Obama doing this to himself?

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

8. Bush's lies coming home, corporate greed coming home.

[Hissyspit]

10. Oh, o.k. Got it.

Yup.

[tabatha]

5. I wonder if the WikiLeaks releases

can be used against Bush, Cheney?

[Pavulon]

7. Nope. Will never happen unless there is a picture of him eating an iraqi with franks red

hot on the side there is nothing but money you will pay to fix this mess. no impact other than wasted time.

[ProgressIn2008]

9. If you cover for a war criminal, you're a war criminal. nt

[alittlelark]

14. If stopping the economic US Titanic from sinking

and having to deal with 2 wars not of your own making and dealing w/ racist trash smearing you 24/7 along with massive unemployment.....


If that is not enough of a distraction - PLUS the fact that the US NEVER busts its (corporate) war criminals......


I mean REALLY.

I'll bet I want it as much as or more than you.

There are 20 or so individuals that could sink our economy if they chose. They chat.

It's a nasty game.

[Hissyspit]

11. Israel contacted by US Embassy in Tel Aviv over presumed pending release according to Haaretz

Additional Twitter: "Israel contacted by US Embassy in Tel Aviv over presumed pending release according to Haaretz"

[Canuckistanian]

12. The Canadian government is preparing for this, too

Lots of skeletons in our closets, too. Some things that weren't supposed to see the light of day.

[Hissyspit]

13. .

[NuclearDem]

15. You know, I've got a nice suggestion for all those countries about to be embarrased by WikiLeaks

To avoid the embarrassment of having a website publish secret documents about how you did evil shit...


YOU SHOULD STOP DOING EVIL SHIT.

[Bodhi BloodWave]

18. what makes you think everything involved will be evil shit?

Unless I'm wrong a fair amount of it will be diplomatic cables et al.

Now a lot of diplomacy involves getting what you need without giving to much to the other, as well as in many cases keeping what you 'really' think about your diplomatic colleague from them(alternativly keep what you think about what they are doing hidden from them).

A lot of that stuff is not likely to be 'evil' or 'illegal' but it is very likely to harm foreign relations(with possible expulsions) when that stuff is revealed, could you tell me exactly how that in any way helps you, your faction, the US and most others?

[Hissyspit]

17. wikileaks: US briefs Iraq, Turkey over embassy cables according to AFP, Turkish media

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