WikiLeaks Leaves Names of Diplomatic Sources in Cables

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SCOTT SHANE
The New York Times
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

WASHINGTON — In a shift of tactics that has alarmed American officials, the antisecrecy organization WikiLeaks has published on the Web nearly 134,000 leaked diplomatic cables in recent days, more than six times the total disclosed publicly since the posting of the leaked State Department documents began last November.

A sampling of the documents showed that the newly published cables included the names of some people who had spoken confidentially to American diplomats and whose identities were marked in the cables with the warning “strictly protect.”

State Department officials and human rights activists have been concerned that such diplomatic sources, including activists, journalists and academics in authoritarian countries, could face reprisals, including dismissal from their jobs, prosecution or violence.

Since late 2010, The New York Times and several other news organizations have had access to more than 250,000 State Department cables originally obtained by WikiLeaks, citing them in news articles and publishing a relatively small number of cables deemed newsworthy. But The Times and other publications that had access to the documents removed the names of people judged vulnerable to retaliation.

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5 Responses to “WikiLeaks Leaves Names of Diplomatic Sources in Cables”

  1. here comes the rat-a-tat-tat

  2. “But The Times and other publications that had access to the documents removed the names of people judged vulnerable to retaliation.”

    So here we have it. Control is everywhere. The Times is just another arm of the NWO . Zieg Hiel

    Kwai Chang Reply:
    August 30th, 2011 at 7:07 am

    Heil murdoch

    jameswaterwolf Reply:
    August 30th, 2011 at 7:43 am

    Heil Murdoch and omitted information. News reporting is 50% deleted for the good of humanity. LOL.

  3. I guess they shouldn’t be arresting members of wikileaks on bullshit charges then.

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