Wikileaks On Us Diplomatic Cables

WikiLeaks published today more than 60,000 diplomatic cables from Saudi Arabia and said on its website it would release half a million more in the coming weeks.

The server used by pro-transparency organisation WikiLeaks when it released secret documents in 2010 about the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a massive trove of diplomatic cables was sold for $33,000 on Thursday.

A new cable - released by WikiLeaks - sent by US diplomats in India to their home office in Washington illustrates the sycophancy of then Defence Minister Bansi Lal towards Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Defence Minister AK Antony was "one of the only" leaders apart from Priyaranjan Dasmunsi who "flatly criticised" Sanjay Gandhi during 1976 All India Congress Committee (AICC) session in Guwahati during Emergency when Mr Gandhi's political graph was on the rise, US diplomatic cables have claimed.

A leaked diplomatic cable dispatched by the US Consul General in Chennai in 2007 had nailed the then Congress government headed by YS Rajasekhara Reddy in Andhra Pradesh for "widespread corruption that was beyond the pale" even for India.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange blasted the Guardian on Tuesday, saying the British paper's "negligence" in publishing an encryption key to uncensored files forced his organization's hand in publishing the secret U.S. diplomatic memos.

A US diplomatic cable leaked by whistleblower website WikiLeaks quotes Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as saying that in 2006, he had reached a "non-territorial solution" on Kashmir with then Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.

Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal has hit out at the BJP a day after a US cable leaked by WikiLeaks claimed that the party's senior leader Arun Jaitley had referred to Hindu nationalism as an "opportunistic issue.""Pressed on the question of Hindutva, Jaitley argued that Hindu nationalism 'will always be a talking point' for the BJP. However, he c...

Denying that Washington was interfering in India's internal affairs as alleged by the CPM, the US has said that American diplomats do in India what Indian diplomats do in the US.While declining to address the substance of India related WikiLeaks cables, State Department spokesman P J Crowley told reporters on Friday, "We are building a strategic pa...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has spoken with 12 world leaders, including the Presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the past one week to express her regret over the embarrassing release of secret diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks.Yesterday, Clinton spoke to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and President Fernandez de Kirchner of Argenti...

Russia's secret service and politicians have close links with organised crime, according to details from leaked confidential US diplomatic documents published in a Spanish newspaper Thursday.The daily El Pais is one of several newspapers given advance access to 250,000 US diplomatic cables by the online whistleblower WikiLeaks.Spanish prosecutor Jo...

Among a quarter million secret US documents released by the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, a total of 3,038 classified cables are from the American embassy in New Delhi.The details of the cables related to India were not immediately available, mainly because of inaccessibility to the WikiLeaks website, which was experiencing heavy traffic.But ou...

A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats.Some of the cables, made available to The New York Times an...

The United States has expanded the role of American diplomats in collecting intelligence overseas and at the United Nations, ordering State Department personnel to gather the credit card and frequent-flier numbers, work schedules and other personal information of foreign dignitaries.Revealed in classified State Department cables, the directives, go...

WikiLeaks published today more than 60,000 diplomatic cables from Saudi Arabia and said on its website it would release half a million more in the coming weeks.

The server used by pro-transparency organisation WikiLeaks when it released secret documents in 2010 about the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a massive trove of diplomatic cables was sold for $33,000 on Thursday.

A new cable - released by WikiLeaks - sent by US diplomats in India to their home office in Washington illustrates the sycophancy of then Defence Minister Bansi Lal towards Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Defence Minister AK Antony was "one of the only" leaders apart from Priyaranjan Dasmunsi who "flatly criticised" Sanjay Gandhi during 1976 All India Congress Committee (AICC) session in Guwahati during Emergency when Mr Gandhi's political graph was on the rise, US diplomatic cables have claimed.

A leaked diplomatic cable dispatched by the US Consul General in Chennai in 2007 had nailed the then Congress government headed by YS Rajasekhara Reddy in Andhra Pradesh for "widespread corruption that was beyond the pale" even for India.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange blasted the Guardian on Tuesday, saying the British paper's "negligence" in publishing an encryption key to uncensored files forced his organization's hand in publishing the secret U.S. diplomatic memos.

A US diplomatic cable leaked by whistleblower website WikiLeaks quotes Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as saying that in 2006, he had reached a "non-territorial solution" on Kashmir with then Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.

Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal has hit out at the BJP a day after a US cable leaked by WikiLeaks claimed that the party's senior leader Arun Jaitley had referred to Hindu nationalism as an "opportunistic issue.""Pressed on the question of Hindutva, Jaitley argued that Hindu nationalism 'will always be a talking point' for the BJP. However, he c...

Denying that Washington was interfering in India's internal affairs as alleged by the CPM, the US has said that American diplomats do in India what Indian diplomats do in the US.While declining to address the substance of India related WikiLeaks cables, State Department spokesman P J Crowley told reporters on Friday, "We are building a strategic pa...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has spoken with 12 world leaders, including the Presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the past one week to express her regret over the embarrassing release of secret diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks.Yesterday, Clinton spoke to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and President Fernandez de Kirchner of Argenti...

Russia's secret service and politicians have close links with organised crime, according to details from leaked confidential US diplomatic documents published in a Spanish newspaper Thursday.The daily El Pais is one of several newspapers given advance access to 250,000 US diplomatic cables by the online whistleblower WikiLeaks.Spanish prosecutor Jo...

Among a quarter million secret US documents released by the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, a total of 3,038 classified cables are from the American embassy in New Delhi.The details of the cables related to India were not immediately available, mainly because of inaccessibility to the WikiLeaks website, which was experiencing heavy traffic.But ou...

A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats.Some of the cables, made available to The New York Times an...

The United States has expanded the role of American diplomats in collecting intelligence overseas and at the United Nations, ordering State Department personnel to gather the credit card and frequent-flier numbers, work schedules and other personal information of foreign dignitaries.Revealed in classified State Department cables, the directives, go...