Wikileaks : dictature de la transparence ou transparence de la dictature ? Vendredi 3 décembre 2010, Paris, mi-journée. Les plus vieux parmi nous se souviennent peut-être. Une déclaration anodine d’un politicien insignifiant initia le début de la grande récession. Les historiens déterministes aiment comparer l’évènement à l’assassinat de l’archiduc Ferdinand à l’origine de la Première Guerre mondiale. Revenons sur les faits bien que nous les ayons presque tous étudiés dès notre enfance après la restauration démocratique. Au début, personne n’y prêta guère attention puis, au fil de 2010, les documents révélés devinrent de plus en plus embarrassants pour les puissants. Louis est apparu avec un petit chien à ses pieds et un gros lapin dans les bras. Les puissants se sentant égratignés, rabaissés au titre de simple humain, et chacun d’eux étant montré se moquant des autres, les chancelleries s’en offusquèrent. Personne à vrai dire ne fut dupe. Éric Besson, alors ministre de l’Industrie, de l’Énergie et de l’Économie numérique déclara :
WikiLeaks cables are dispatches from a beleaguered America in imperial retreat | Neal Ascherson | Comment is free | The Observer There's more to the WikiLeaks dispatches than leaks. Look behind them, at the writers, and you see the loyal rearguard of America: an imperial power in retreat. There was a tradition in our Foreign Office that a retiring ambassador could blow off steam. In a final, exuberant telegram to Whitehall, he could say exactly what he thought of the country he was leaving, and of the folly of the Foreign Office in ignoring his advice.The best telegrams were treasured by young diplomats. But they began to leak into the press. And a few years ago this privilege was suppressed. Now the WikiLeaks eruption has smothered the world with the secret thoughts of the state department's ambassadors. These diplomats who didn't want us to know their thoughts are not mere cogs in an imperial machine. The test of an ambassador is telling truth to those who wield the power – having the guts to tell the department that its plan is a delusion. Not all the dispatch-writers are that sound. Perhaps not.
WikiLeaks Cables: Pfizer Targeted Nigerian Attorney General to Undermine Suit over Fatal Drug Tests This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. JUAN GONZALEZ: As the world continues to focus on [Julian Assange’s] case, we’ll focus on the content of the thousands of State Department cables that WikiLeaks is continuing to publish. AMY GOODMAN: In 1996, Pfizer’s researchers selected 200 children at an epidemic hospital in Nigeria for an experimental drug trial. The details of the case were first exposed in 2000 in an investigative series in the Washington Post. JUAN GONZALEZ: A State Department cable from 2009 details a meeting between Pfizer’s country manager, Enrico Liggeri, and U.S. officials in Abuja. AMY GOODMAN: Joe Stephens is a staff writer for the Washington Post. And we’re joined here in studio by Musikilu Mojeed, a Nigerian journalist who has worked on this story for the NEXT newspaper in Lagos. We welcome you both to Democracy Now! JOE STEPHENS: Well, this goes back 14 years. After our stories, there was an official federal investigation in Nigeria. [break]
WikiLeaks fights to stay online after US company withdraws domain name | Media The US was today accused of opening up a dramatic new front against WikiLeaks, effectively "killing" its web address just days after Amazon pulled the site from its servers following political pressure. The whistleblowers' website went offline for the third time in a week this morning, in the biggest threat to its online presence yet. Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate's committee on homeland security, earlier this week called for any organisation helping sustain WikiLeaks to "immediately terminate" its relationship with them. On Friday morning, WikiLeaks and the cache of secret diplomatic documents that have proved to be a scourge for governments around the world were only accessible through a string of digits known as a DNS address. The site later re-emerged with a Swiss domain, WikiLeaks.ch. Julian Assange this morning said the development is an example of the "privatisation of state censorship" in the US and is a "serious problem." Amazon said: It noted that:
Gates on Leaks, Wiki and Otherwise Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has regularly denounced Wikileaks in recent months for its extensive disclosures, and as a former director of central intelligence he places high value on secrets. But at a Pentagon briefing on Tuesday, Mr. Gates, who plans to retire next year, responded to a question about Wikileaks’ disclosure of 250,000 diplomatic cables by meandering down a different path. Here is some of what he said: “Let me just offer some perspective as somebody who’s been at this a long time. “Now, I’ve heard the impact of these releases on our foreign policy described as a meltdown, as a game-changer, and so on. “So other nations will continue to deal with us. “Is this embarrassing?
Cablegate Resources Contents 1. Introduction2. Data Resources3. Revelations4. WL Central Coverage 1. A momentous release by WikiLeaks of 251,287 US diplomatic cables started on November 28, 2010 in conjunction with The Guardian, Le Monde, El País, Der Spiegel and The New York Times. "The cables show the extent of US spying on its allies and the UN; turning a blind eye to corruption and human rights abuse in "client states"; backroom deals with supposedly neutral countries; lobbying for US corporations; and the measures US diplomats take to advance those who have access to them," said WikiLeaks on the introduction page for the release. Besides exposing questionable practices on behalf of world governments, the cables constitute an immense gift to history and contemporary journalism, presenting a dynamic and systematic picture of world diplomacy, in the painstaking detail required by the U.S. 2. Since the beginning, an array of useful web resources have sprung up to aid the exploration of the Wikileaks data.
French minister declares war on WikiLeaks Fair Use: Please note that use of the Netcraft Blog is subject to our Fair Use and Copyright policies. For more information, please visit or email info@netcraft.com. Éric Besson, the Minister of Industry, Energy and Digital Economy in France, has declared war on WikiLeaks (article in French here). Besson has asked CGIET (The General Council of Industry, Energy and Technology) to stop the site being hosted in France, as this violates secret diplomatic relations and endangers the people protected by those secrets. wikileaks.ch is hosted in Sweden, but requests to this site are immediately redirected to If the French hosting location is taken down, WikiLeaks can make wikileaks.ch redirect to a different IP address at the drop of a hat.
The moral standards of WikiLeaks critics - Glenn Greenwald The WikiLeaks disclosure has revealed not only numerous government secrets, but also the driving mentality of major factions in our political and media class. Simply put, there are few countries in the world with citizenries and especially media outlets more devoted to serving, protecting and venerating government authorities than the U.S. Indeed, I don’t quite recall any entity producing as much bipartisan contempt across the American political spectrum as WikiLeaks has: as usual, for authoritarian minds, those who expose secrets are far more hated than those in power who commit heinous acts using secrecy as their principal weapon. The way in which so many political commentators so routinely and casually call for the eradication of human beings without a shred of due process is nothing short of demented. Those who demand that the U.S. WOLF BLITZER, HOST: Brooke, thanks very much. In sum, I seriously question the judgment of anyone who — in the face of the orgies of secrecy the U.S.
Cablegate wiki [Live] Statelogs: Un nouveau monde? » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism WikiLeaks prend de la hauteur sur les combats. Après avoir publié des documents relatifs aux guerres en Afghanistan et en Irak, l'organisation a commencé à mettre en ligne plus de 250.000 mémos diplomatiques. Leur plus gros coup? Lors de la publication des Warlogs irakiens, WikiLeaks nous avait directement contacté pour fournir l’application qui permettait de naviguer à travers les rapports de situation écrits par l’armée américaine. Les équipes d’OWNI ont convenu d’appeler cette opération #Statelogs. Voici notre récit, notre travail journalistique, augmenté du travail des développeurs et de nos partenaires. Check our english version of this article > Nous vous recommandons d’utiliser l’application en plein écran. Nous clôturons le live-blogging. [15h] 100% des documents rendus publics sont intégrés à l’application StateLogs A cette heure, 244 télégrammes diplomatiques ont été rendus publics, que ce soit par Wikileaks directement ou les médias partenaires. [19h15] Un jour historique ?