Around 8pmest every night
As we have seen in this rec'd diary and also in this diary earlier today and over at Fire Dod Lake the big pushback by BoA against Wikileaks is to try to get Glenn Greenwald to throw his integrity away for more access to power. Bwahahahahahahaha!
@emptywheel Yeah - clearly I place professional preservation before cause: that's why I'm a WL defender - & media critic. So good for career
about 7 hours ago via web in reply to emptywheel
The Telegraph: Egyptian 'torturers' trained by FBI
According to leaked diplomatic cables, the head of the Egyptian state security and investigative service (SSIS) thanked the US for "training opportunities" at the FBI academy in Quantico, Virginia. The SSIS has been repeatedly accused of using violence and brutality to help prop up the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. In April, 2009, the US ambassador in Cairo stated that "Egypt’s police and domestic security services continue to be dogged by persistent, credible allegations of abuse of detainees.
"The Interior Ministry uses SSIS to monitor and sometimes infiltrate the political opposition and civil society. SSIS suppresses political opposition through arrests, harassment and intimidation."
In October, 2009, "credible" human rights lawyers representing alleged Hizbollah detainees provided details of the techniques employed by the SSIS. The cable states: "The lawyers told us in mid-October that they have compiled accounts from several defendants of GOE [Government of Egypt] torture by electric shocks, sleep deprivation, and stripping them naked for extended periods.
"The lawyers believe the accounts to be credible."
Cable: Hosni Mubarak told US not to topple Saddam Hussein
By ignoring his advice and invading Iraq, Mr Mubarak warned that the Americans had managed to increase the threat posed by Iran.
Mr Mubarak made the comments during a breakfast meeting with US congressmen at the presidential palace in Cairo in December, 2008.
He told one of the delegation, Sen Byron Dorgan, that the US needed to ''listen to its friends" in the region.
"When George Bush Senior was president, 'he listened to my advice. But his son does not’," he said, according to a US cable sent on Jan 14, 2009. It continued: "Mubarak said that when President Bush Sr had called and asked what Mubarak thought about invading Iraq to get to rid of Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf war, Mubarak had told him not to because 'you won’t be able to get out and you will drown in Iraq’. Mubarak said he had tried to convey the same message to the current administration, only to be ignored.
"'I told (Vice President) Cheney three or four times’ that Iraq needed a strong leader and that it would be unwise to remove Saddam Hussein; doing so would only 'open the gate to Iran.’ Unfortunately, he said, the vice-president did not listen to his advice."
Cable: Mohamed ElBaradei was 'too soft on Tehran’
Officials feared that Mr ElBaradei, who at the time was head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was "just going through the motions" with Iran and was failing to investigate fully its suspected nuclear programme.
In October, 2007, US diplomats were briefed by officers from Israeli Defence Intelligence that Mr ElBaradei saw himself as a "peacemaker" who was surrounded by staff who "do not wish to challenge him". The cable states: "ElBaradei sees himself as a peacemaker akin to the Dalai Lama. He urged the US to take measures to 'chip away’ at the staff bolstering his 'supreme confidence’.
"He [the Israeli official] stressed that it would help if the US and other countries explained to ElBaradei that he might embarrass the IAEA and undercut his legacy in the long run."
What you missed in Informationthread 55 :
Details on the strange death of a former Chilean president
Greg Mitchell Explains Why The Mainstream Press Is So Threatened By WikiLeaks
Collen Rowley: NYT's Keller Disparages Assange
WikiLeaks: Suleiman Is Israel's Choice To Replace Mubarak
Suleiman: The CIA's man in Cairo
Cable: Suleiman is Israel's preferred successor in Egypt
Cable: Israel pressures Suleiman to close Gaza's 'feeding tube' tunnels
Cables suggest Suleiman handling Egyptians as he has handled Palestinians
UPDATE Google Executive Wael Ghonim in Tahrir Square & the Mubarak Regime's Repression of Bloggers
As Egyptian Army Cracks Down, Leaked Cables Shed Light on Its Gov’t Loyalties, Internal Rifts
cable 05CAIRO8938
- (C) The Egyptians have a long history of threatening us with the MB bogeyman. Your counterparts may try to suggest that the President,s insistence on greater democracy in Egypt is somehow responsible for the MB,s electoral success. You should push back that, on the contrary, the MB,s rise signals the need for greater democracy and transparency in government. The images of intimidation and fraud that have emerged from the recent elections favor the extremists both we and the Egyptian government oppose. The best way to counter narrow-minded Islamist politics is to open the system. The FBI could serve as a resource and partner ) if indeed you are willing -- in professionalizing the Egyptian security services and modernizing their investigative techniques. This would enhance the credibility of the security apparatus and remove an arrow from the Islamists, quiver.
Glenn Greenwald: Obama's man in Cairo
What you missed in Informationthread 54 :
A HUGE, BIG, AMAZING tip o' the hat to Greg Mitchell for giving me permission to repost his awesome: "Cablegate" to Date: A Unique List of What's Been Revealed
Joshua Norman at CBS News "How WikiLeaks Enlightened Us in 2010"
Glenn Greenwald's What WikiLeaks revealed to the world in 2010
Here is a list of what Wikileaks has released on the countries currently having the people rise up( Thanks to WL Central ):
Tunisia
2011-01-04: Nonoperational Site Update: Wrath of Anon in Tunisia
2011-01-14 Tunisia: Ben Ali Out, Mohamed Ghannouchi Out
2011-01-15 What the US state cables on Tunisia said
2011-01-17 Slim Amamou named Tunisia's Secretary of Youth and Sports
2011-01-17 Tunisia's new government
2011-01-17: Comments on the new national government formed in Tunisia
2011-01-18 Ahmed Hashem El-Sayed dies in Alexandria hospital from self-immolation wounds
2011-01-18 Reaction to Tunisia's new government
2011-01-19 Unrest in Arab States [Update 1]
2011-01-21 Ben Ali has used Europe's prejudices
2011-01-24 Tunisia today: "It’s not a unity government, it’s a fake unity government"
2011-01-27 Tunisia protests continue as a warrant is issued for Ben Ali
2011-02-01 Tunisian Islamic Leader Returns as EU Freezes Ousted President's Assets
Egypt
2011-01-16 Protests in Egypt
2011-01-17 Egyptian man sets himself on fire [UPDATE: 1]
2011-01-18 Ahmed Hashem El-Sayed dies in Alexandria hospital from self-immolation wounds
2011-01-19 Unrest in Arab States [Update 1]
2011-01-25 Revolution Day in Egypt
2011-01-26 Week of "rage" in Egypt sees casualties, global support [UPDATE 1]
2011-01-27 Mubarak blinks as Egyptian protests continue for third day
2011-01-28 Egypt Cables - New Releases [UPDATE 12]
2011-01-28 Cable: Qatar on the Israeli-Palestine talks, Egypt and Iran
2011-01-28 Egypt is on fire
2011-01-28 Cable: President Mubarak in Washington
2011-01-28 Cable: Torture and police brutality in Egypt are endemic and widespread
2011-01-28 Cable: Mubarak discusses Iran and a "split" within Arab ranks
2011-01-28 Cable: Assessing support for Mohammed El Baradei
2011-01-28 Cable: Police brutality and poor prison conditions in Egypt
2011-01-28 Cable: Police torture in Egypt
2011-01-28 Mubarak refuses to step down
2011-01-28 Cable: Egypt's Emergency Law
2011-01-28 Cable: Political arrests of Muslim Brotherhood
2011-01-28 Cable: The Amir of Qatar discusses Syria, Egypt, and Iran
2011-01-28 Cable: Egypt displeased with number and tone of U.S. human rights recommendations
2011-01-29 No Internet? No Problem! Anonymous Faxes Egypt
2011-01-29 Mubarak swears in new PM and VP as unrest persists
2011-01-29 Who is Egypt's new Vice President?
2011-01-30 Arab Totalitarians want Tech for National Security Emergencies
2011-01-30 Al Jazeera no longer welcome in Egypt
2011-01-30 Egyptian government orders Al Jazeera shutdown
2011-01-30 Million Egyptian Protest Planned as Resistance Continues
2011-01-31 Cable: Egyptian April 6 activist's democracy goals "highly unrealistic"
2011-01-31 Egypt's Military jockeys to maintain Longstanding Grip on Power
2011-02-01 Army Vows Not to Shoot as Protesters make Million Man Marches in Cairo, Alexandria Today [UPDATE: 2]
2011-02-01 WikiLeaks Cables Show Mubarak Not Very Open to Reforms or Freedoms for Egyptians
2011-02-02 Food Crisis in Egypt
2011-02-02 Pro-Mubarak Forces and Police Thugs Attack Journalists
2011-02-03 Act Now to Stop Mubarak's Thugs From Killing More!
2011-02-03 Marietje Schaake on the situation in Tunisia and Egypt
From Informationthread 52 we learned these things:
Kevin Gosztola from The Nation: WikiLeaks Cables Show Mubarak Not Very Open to Reforms or Freedoms for Egyptians [UPDATE 4]
Al Jazeera English Blacked Out Across Most Of U.S.
Wadah Khanfar, Dirctor General of Al Jazeera writes an amazing article that you should read RIGHT NOW Al Jazeera English Should Be Available on American Television
Jeremy Scahill writes A MUST READ Washington Embraces Al Jazeera
From May 19, 2008 NYTimes Al Jazeera English Tries to Extend Its Reach
What we learned in Informationthread 51 :
Dylan Ratigan video with transcript on Manning's treatment
The Scandal Everybody Seems to Have Missed
Stephen Colbert vs. Julian Assange: The Great Debate Video here
Cable: Egyptian April 6 activist's democracy goals "highly unrealistic"
US state cables on Syria
UK firm's partner 'wanted Peru to curb priests in mine conflict areas'
WikiLeaks releases 480 secret cables on Libya
James Mann at Foreign Policy on what they show about U.S. - China relations, how tense they are "in real time," and how one state dinner won't do much really.
What you missed in Wikileaks Informationthread 49: Omar Suleiman And Etc.
Who Is Omar Suleiman?
Viewing cable 09CAIRO1349, GENERAL PETRAEUS' MEETING WITH EGIS CHIEF SOLIMAN
Viewing cable 09CAIRO746, ADMIRAL MULLEN'S MEETING WITH EGIS CHIEF SOLIMAN
Viewing cable 07CAIRO1417, PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION IN EGYPT
WaPo: WikiLeaks' Julian Assange: 'Anarchist,' 'agitator,' 'arrogant' and a journalist
The WikiLeaks Revolt
A claim that WikiLeaks cables on Egypt released not this week but in early December, and published by indie paper there, had something to do with current revolt.
In Informationthread 48 we read these:
Cable: Egypt action against poet, bloggers, novelist and journalists
Cable: Egypt's Emergency Law
Cable: Police torture in Egypt
Cable: Police brutality and poor prison conditions in Egypt
Mubarak skeptical of U.S. reform push: leaked cables
Amid Digital Blackout, Anonymous Mass-Faxes WikiLeaks Cables To Egypt
Guardian Liveblog on Egypt
Vodafone confirms role in Egypt’s cellular, Internet blackout
Assange interview with Romanian TV