Morgan Tzvangirai will not be prosecuted, a Zimbabwean panel has determined, in connection with comments he made to US diplomats, revealed in cables published by the Guardian. The Financial Gazette, a Zimbabwean English-language news weekly, reports: A PANEL set up early this year to probe alleged treason by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and leading ZANU-PF… [Read more…]
January 13, 2011
Early last week, The Guardian published an Op-Ed piece by a James Richardson, which attributed to Wikileaks all of the journalistic responsibility for possible fallout in the Zimbabwean government following from the release of the 09HARARE1004 cable. I covered the initial James Richardson piece several hours after its publication, here on WL Central, where I… [Read more…]
January 12, 2011
Last week, The Guardian published an article by James Richardson, a political and communications consultant who has worked in electoral campaigns for the Republican Party in the United States, in which Richardson aggressively criticized Wikileaks for the release of 09HARARE1004, a cable that, he argued, gave Robert Mugabe’s faction within the Zimbabwe government a pretext… [Read more…]
January 12, 2011
In response to Glenn Greenwald’s coverage of the Wikileaks-Guardian-Tsvangirai controversy and the Guardian’s recent retraction, The Atlantic’s Max Fisher tweeted an interesting point, which throws into confusion the issue of exactly what time Wikileaks released the 09HARARE1004 cable: Max Fisher: @ggreenwald Not trying to start a fight, but WL time stamp looks to be older… [Read more…]
January 4, 2011
Today, James Richardson had an opinion and analysis piece published in The Guardian about the fallout in Zimbabwe from the publication of the 09HARARE1004 cable. Information about Morgan Tzvangirai’s meetings with US embassy officials was disclosed in the Harare cable, and this will likely be the subject of a politically motivated high treason trial brought… [Read more…]
July 20, 2011
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