The WikiWeek: June 17, 2011
THE CABLES AMERICAS Salvadorans are not into the idea of other people investigating Salvadorans. MIDDLE EAST U.S. officials in 2006 were concerned about the security of Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure. THE NEWS The U.S. government is trying to keep attorneys for Guantanamo detainees from being able to used their WikiLeaked files in legal proceedings ...
THE CABLES
AMERICAS
Salvadorans are not into the idea of other people investigating Salvadorans.
MIDDLE EAST
U.S. officials in 2006 were concerned about the security of Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure.
THE NEWS
The U.S. government is trying to keep attorneys for Guantanamo detainees from being able to used their WikiLeaked files in legal proceedings (although they are now allowed to look at them).
You still have a couple days to bid on a lunch date with Julian Assange and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek.
Assange’s supporters accuse British authorities of spying on him, while Assange complains that his house arrest is keeping him from getting any work done.
The granddaddy of WikiLeaks is officially released at last.
THE BIG PICTURE
Trying to make sense of the LulzSec hackers’ motives.
How WikiLeaks begat the Sarah Palin email frenzy.
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