WikiLeaked

The WikiWeek: February 18, 2011

THE CABLES AFRICA U.S. diplomats in 2008 called the Libyan city where protests erupted this week “a locus of extremist activity” not really under the control of Muammar Qaddafi’s government. ASIA What U.S. diplomats have to say about Xi Jinping, China’s next leader. EUROPE NATO on Russia’s military: Meh. MIDDLE EAST Inside the United States’ ...

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THE CABLES

AFRICA

U.S. diplomats in 2008 called the Libyan city where protests erupted this week “a locus of extremist activity” not really under the control of Muammar Qaddafi’s government.

ASIA

What U.S. diplomats have to say about Xi Jinping, China’s next leader.

EUROPE

NATO on Russia’s military: Meh.

MIDDLE EAST

Inside the United States’ cozy relationship with Bahrain.

Bahrain’s king told U.S. officials that his country’s opposition was trained by Hezbollah.

 

THE NEWS

The U.S. government’s WikiLeaks probe makes its courtroom debut in the United States.

WikiLeaks defector Daniel Domscheit-Berg’s (above) book, Inside WikiLeaks, is out in English. WikiLeaks is threatening to sue him.

The preposterously complex hacking and counter-hacking saga engulfing WikiLeaks’ online allies.

Australia wants to make sure Julian Assange is treated justly in Sweden.

Anonymous is now going after Iran.

 

THE BIG PICTURE

Free speech advocate and celebrity attorney Alan Dershowitz, now Julian Assange’s lawyer, tells FP why WikiLeaks is “the Pentagon Papers case for the 21st Century.”

Hillary Clinton’s tricky balancing act on WikiLeaks and Internet freedom.

WikiLeaks’ Asia cables could be a whole lot worse.

Charles Homans is a special correspondent for the New Republic and the former features editor of Foreign Policy.
Tags: Africa, Barack Obama, China, Cyber Security & Hacking, East Asia, Eastern Europe, Europe, Foreign & Public Diplomacy, International Organizations, Liberalism, Libya, Middle East and North Africa, North America, Oil Production, Russia, Security, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. State Department

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