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2011-02-03: Sources on Israel Shamir

The sources of the Shamir controversy. Recent writing about Shamir in connection to Wikileaks has been unduly polemical, preferring to telescope conclusions through the use of inflammatory and judgmental language. The matter at hand is certainly, and understandably, an inflammatory matter. But it will be necessary, for the sake of clarity, to examine the evidence… [Read more…]

2011-01-12 Stephen M Walt: Wikileaks, April Glaspie & Saddam Hussein

Wikiileaks, April Glaspie, and Saddam Hussein Stephen M. Walt provides some much needed analysis on the 90BAGHDAD4237 cable, which casts new light on the long debated meeting between U.S. ambassador April Glaspie and Saddam Hussein in July 1990, a week before the outbreak of war between Iraq and Kuwait. Walt addresses arguments made after the… [Read more…]

2011-01-11: Ryan Singel on Twitter’s Decision over Wikileaks Subpoena

Ryan Singel, at Wired’s Threat Level Blog, presents a laudatory analysis of Twitter’s decision to challenge the DoJ’s move, during a secret Grand Jury investigation in Virgina, to subpoena the private details of various accounts related to Wikileaks. WL Central has covered this issue in detail (listed at the bottom of this post. Singel’s article… [Read more…]

2011-01-01: El País: Why EL PAÍS chose to publish the leaks

EL PAÍS editor, JAVIER MORENO, explains the decision to publish the State Department cables, which expose on an unprecedented scale the extent to which Western leaders lie to their electorates. MORENO provides some of the best analysis of Cablegate yet. From Why EL PAÍS chose to publish the leaks Cynics will argue that none of… [Read more…]

2010-12-30: The Economist on Bruce Sterling on Wikileaks

From Analysing WikiLeaks: Bruce Sterling’s plot holes | The Economist: What is most intriguing about the WikiLeaks saga is not the pathology of hacker culture as envisioned by Mr Sterling’s fecund imagination, but the possibility that Julian Assange and his confederates have made dull liberal principles seem once again sexily subversive by exposing power’s reactionary… [Read more…]

Grav deg ned i tide…

Something might happen very soon. You might hear about it. If you do, and you want to know more, a bunch of industrious and dedicated amateurs will be working furiously to collect all of the most important information in one place, and set it in the context that professional reporters just aren’t allowed to supply.… [Read more…]