WikiLeaked

The WikiWeek: June 24, 2011

THE CABLES AFRICA U.S. diplomats condemned the "appalling greed" of Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s inner circle. AMERICAS The George W. Bush administration supported Catholic clergy in Venezuela who protested against Hugo Chávez (and defied the pope in so doing). A 2008 survey found that half of Cubans couldn’t identify any of the major dissidents on ...

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THE CABLES

THE CABLES

AFRICA

U.S. diplomats condemned the "appalling greed" of Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s inner circle.

AMERICAS

The George W. Bush administration supported Catholic clergy in Venezuela who protested against Hugo Chávez (and defied the pope in so doing).

A 2008 survey found that half of Cubans couldn’t identify any of the major dissidents on the island that receive U.S. backing.

ASIA

Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman was an influential player in Obama’s China policy during his tenure as ambassador.

Andrew MacGregor Marshall, who quit Reuters over a WikiLeaks-related disagreement, is self-publishing his reporting based on his own trove of Thailand-related cables.

Gaming out the internal power dynamics of China’s Politburo Standing Committee.

 

THE NEWS

Julian Assange revamps his legal team.

GOP presidential hopeful and former Arizona Gov. Gary Johnson is pretty much the only Republican willing to defend WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks thinks Bitcoin is too dodgy for donations.

Remember those cameras that Assange supporters claimed were being used to spy on him? They’re actually there to monitor traffic.

 

THE BIG PICTURE

Has WikiLeaks ushered in an era of no government secrets?

Charles Homans is a special correspondent for the New Republic and the former features editor of Foreign Policy.
Tags: China, Corruption, Cyber Security & Hacking, East Asia, Elections, Foreign & Public Diplomacy, Middle East and North Africa, North America, Oil Production, Politics, U.S. Foreign Policy

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