Most Dangerous Week Ever
- By Spencer Ackerman
- December 3, 2010 |
- 5:00 pm |
- Categories: Blog Bidness
Judging by what we laced you with this week, it was more like the most dangerous leak ever. Spelunking through WikiLeaks’ trove of purloined diplomatic communications, we unearthed details about Iran’s illicit global weapons-procurement network, U.S. and Israeli efforts to stop Russia from selling Iran anti-aircraft missiles, dubious North Korean missile transfers to the mullahs and years-old Russian espionage on Georgia. We found a global market in drone technology, hidden American support for Ethiopia’s 2006 invasion of Somalia, and Pakistani harassment of American diplomats. And we were also told by the secretary of defense and the director of the National Counterterrorism Center that WikiLeaks was hardly going to bring America to its knees.
Not that we turned the blog into a Julian Assange fansite. As the Air Force’s secret space plane touched down, we examined the industry-fueled backstory of the resurrection of NASA’s space plane fleet. We reported on Marines jury-rigging a missile-equipped gunship out of a KC-130 cargo plane. No plea for national sanity in counterterrorism missed our attention. Twists and turns in the sexy-Russian-spy saga? We had you covered. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatening to sue the major world powers over his dead nuke scientists? But of course. The future of the military’s ban on open gay service? Done and done.
But who knows: maybe next week we’ll keep you in Wiki-world as well, since as of this writing, only 667 out of over 251,000 diplo-cables have become public. Only then will we be able to know for sure which week will count as the most dangerous. Place your bets.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/12/most-dangerous-week-ever-11/
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