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U.S. Diplomatic Cables Leak
The United States diplomatic cables leak, widely List of scandals with "-gate" suffix, known as Cablegate, began on Sunday, 28 November 2010 when WikiLeaks began releasing Classified information in the United States, classified Diplomatic cable, cables that had been sent to the United States Department of State, U.S. State Department by 274 of its consulates, embassies, and diplomatic missions around the world. Dated between December 1966 and February 2010, the cables contain diplomatic analysis from world leaders, and the diplomats' assessment of host countries and their officials. On 30 July 2013, Chelsea Manning was convicted for theft of the cables and violations of the Espionage Act in a United States v. Manning, court martial proceeding and sentenced to thirty-five years imprisonment. She was released on 17 May 2017, after seven years total confinement, after her sentence had been Commutation (law), commuted by President Barack Obama earlier that year. Sequence of leaks T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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WikiLeaks () is an international non-profit organisation that published news leaks and classified media provided by anonymous sources. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its founder and director and is currently fighting extradition to the United States over his work with WikiLeaks. Since September 2018, Kristinn Hrafnsson has served as its editor-in-chief. Its website stated in 2015 that it had released online 10 million documents since beginning in 2006 in Iceland. In 2019, WikiLeaks posted its last collection of original documents. Beginning in November 2022, only around 3,000 documents could be accessed. The group has released a number of prominent document caches that exposed serious violations of human rights and civil liberties to the US and international public, including the ''Collateral Murder'' footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike in which Iraqi Reuters journalists were among several civilians killed. WikiLeaks i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
