With reports swirling that a third document-dump by the Internet organization WikiLeaks could be imminent - and might reveal confidential comments by foreign leaders about their governments - American diplomats are in damage-control mode.
The Washington Post reported today that the new round of secret U.S. military documents "could reveal that senior government officials in other countries are the sources of embarrassing information about the inner workings of those governments, thus making it more difficult for the State Department to obtain such intelligence in the future."
With Iraq beginning a sensitive and high-stakes month of negotiations over a new government that would run the country for the next four years, U.S. officials here are worried about what secrets the new leaks could reveal. In a briefing with foreign correspondents this morning, the U.S. ambassador to Baghdad, Jim Jeffrey, called WikiLeaks "an absolutely awful impediment to my business, which is to be able to have discussions in confidence with people."
Responding to a question from a reporter from The New York Times - which WikiLeaks has provided with an advance look at the documents the last two times - Jeffrey said the documents "simply hurt our ability to do our work here."
He didn't elaborate, but anything that embarrasses the two lynchpins of the new Iraqi government - prime minister-designate Nouri al Maliki and secular Shiite leader Iyad Allawi - could damage U.S. efforts to bolster the talks, to say nothing of discussions on the future American military presence in Iraq and other sensitive questions.
Jeffrey said that Iraqi leaders would be angered by WikiLeaks, too. "Anybody who has confidential discussions (that) find their way into print is going to be very, very unhappy," he said.
The documents could be released as early as this weekend.
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You know if govt. had to fight it's own wars and scuffles there would never be a war or scuffle and people's lives would never be in danger or harms way...except govt. and their backdoor dealings cause this to happen heck the govt's. of the world have murdered more people trying to cover their criminally insane agendas and secret dealings let's bring down ALL the worlds govt's. and throw a rope around the bankers,corporate, and religious scumbags necks too.
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Well, the way our empire is run is the classical "divide and rule" procedure of "buying" local politicians to be our front men in their own countries. No doubt many of them will now be damaged goods when their countrymen find out about their treason.
But this is nothing new. Why are Italians increasingly anti-US? Because they discovered that the US has been running (ever since WWII) terrorist groups in Italy that bombed Italians and then blamed the bombings on "leftists" to keep our stooges in Italy in political power.
Go read about Operation Gladio at the Swiss Rederal Institute of Technology (their MIT) Project on Parallel History.
http://www.php.isn.ethz.ch/collections/coll_gladio/intro_ganser.cfm?navinfo=15301
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C'mon people, wake up! Do you not think it is suspicious that the excerpts from the leaked cables cited by the mainstream media only serve the interests of the very warmongers you applaud assange for 'fighting'? Leaked cables that reveal that iran purchased weapons from north korea? It's called problem + reaction + solution. Up next will be a 'backlash' against whistle blowing sites aka 'china-style' censorship of the web by the government. Cite one thing from this leak that is truly damaging to the us? we are talking about illegal wars, you don't need assange- rise up yourselves to fight the military-industrial-corporate ruled-political puppets-complex !
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