Tag: state department cables
State Department’s search for a WikiLeaks scapegoat
Peter Van Buren for TomDispatch, part of the Guardian Comment Network guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 27 September 2011 18.11 BST Hillary Clinton at the State Department condemned the WikiLeaks release of US embassy cables, but has not commented on the department’s lax security. Photograph: Win Mcnamee/Getty Images On the same day that more than 250,000 unredacted State…
How 250,000 US embassy cables were leaked
US soldier Bradley Manning, left, who is accused of stealing the classified files and handing the database to the WikiLeaks website of Julian Assange, right. Photograph: Associated Press/AFP/Getty Images An innocuous-looking memory stick, no longer than a couple of fingernails, came into the hands of a Guardian reporter earlier this year. The device is so…
TOP-SECRET – Sixteen Individuals Arrested in the United States for Alleged Roles in Cyber Attacks
WASHINGTON—Fourteen individuals were arrested today by FBI agents on charges related to their alleged involvement in a cyber attack on PayPal’s website as part of an action claimed by the group “Anonymous,” announced the Department of Justice and the FBI. Two additional defendants were arrested today on cyber-related charges. The 14 individuals were arrested in…
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