The WikiWeek: August 5, 2011

Posted By Charles Homans Friday, August 5, 2011 - 5:09 PM Share

THE CABLES

EUROPE

Russian intelligence services used dirty tricks to intimidate American democracy-promotion NGO workers.

MIDDLE EAST

U.S. embassy officials in Damascus asked the Bush and Obama administrations to sanction Syria, to no avail.

 

THE NEWS

The U.S. Congress confirms Earl Wayne as the replacement for the United States' WikiLeaks-ousted ambassador to Mexico, Carlos Pascual.

Vaughan Smith (above right, with Assange in January), who's hosting Assange under the terms of his release, says the WikiLeaks founder "is like a moody teenager … hunted by pushy groupies."

 

THE BIG PICTURE

What WikiLeaks has in common with Rupert Murdoch.

A graphic novel tells the story of WikiLeaks (in Italian).

BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images

EXPLORE:EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, WIKILEAKS
 

FREESPIRIT

8:04 AM ET

August 15, 2011

Dirty Tricks

They are all as bad as one another, always have been and always will be.

Jewellery Quarter Birmingham

 

JUTT 777

7:14 PM ET

August 26, 2011

Essay Editing Service

lot of good information, I come here all the time and am very happy with your updates, Thank you!

 

WikiLeaked is FP’s blog dedicated to sorting through and making sense of the more than 250,000 State Department cables acquired by WikiLeaks.

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