Monday 29th of April 2024

from the vault — before wikileaks...

advice

diplomatic bile...

No me sorprendió pues que el presidente Barack Obama calificase las filtraciones de actos deplorables. Tampoco que la secretaria de Estado Hillary Clinton utilizase esos argumentos, casi con esas mismas palabras, durante su primera comparecencia ante la prensa en Washington para condenar las acciones de Wikileaks y lamentar la decisión que, sin atender a los ruegos de su Administración, finalmente tomamos los cinco periódicos que habíamos tenido acceso al material filtrado.

Lo que este comenzó enseguida a revelar dejó seguramente pequeñas las peores pesadillas del Departamento de Estado, al tiempo que levantó quejas amargas de diplomáticos en todo el mundo.

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/verdad/ocultan/Gobiernos/elpepuint/20101218elpepuint_23/Tes

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Am I surprised that President Barack Obama deplored the leaks? And Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used the same arguments, almost the same words during her first appearance before reporters in Washington to condemn the actions of Wikileaks and bemoan the release against the pleas of the US Administration — chastising the five world papers that have had access to the secret material.

What this started is to disclose the small yet worst nightmares for the Department of State — its bitter [and silly] diplomatic complaints worldwide.

Translation by google/gus...



department bile...

The White House is telling US agencies to create "insider threat" programmes to ferret out disgruntled workers who may leak state secrets, reports say.

The move follows the leaking of thousands of secret US cables to the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.

An 11-page memo by US intelligence officials detailing the advice has been published by US broadcaster NBC.

Correspondents say the Obama administration is trying to prevent more embarrassing disclosures.

Agency officials are being urged to find ways to "detect behavioural changes" among those employees who might have access to secret documents.

The memo suggests the use of psychiatrists and sociologists to measure the "relative happiness" of workers or their "despondence and grumpiness" as a way to assess their trustworthiness.

The document published by NBC has been distributed by Jacob J Lew, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. It was sent this week to senior officials at all agencies using classified material.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12117113