It is now possible to view many political developments around the world through the lens of those who participated in those events. As such, our understanding of those events is deeply enriched. That alone is often enough to place transparency ahead of national regulations regarding confidentiality.
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US embassy cables leak sparks global diplomacy crisis
- More than 250,000 dispatches reveal US foreign strategies
- Diplomats ordered to spy on allies as well as enemies
- Hillary Clinton leads frantic 'damage limitation'
David Leigh guardian.co.uk,
Sunday 28 November 2010 18.13 GMT
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The United States was catapulted into a worldwide diplomatic crisis today, with the leaking to the Guardian and other international media of more than 250,000 classified cables from its embassies, many sent as recently as February this year.Read more »
At the start of a series of daily extracts from the US embassy cables – many designated "secret" – the Guardian can disclose that Arab leaders are privately urging an air strike on Iran and that US officials have been instructed to spy on the UN leadership. These two revelations alone would be likely to reverberate around the world. But the secret dispatches which were obtained by WikiLeaks, the whistleblowers' website, also reveal Washington's evaluation of many other highly sensitive international issues.
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