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Friday, 3 December 2010
FAIR Roundup--by Biodun Iginla, BBC News, London, UK
Topic: fair, media, bbc news
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BREAKING NEWS ALERT: Cables Describe How Yemen Helps U.S. Fight Al Qaeda
Topic: wikileaks, bbc news, biodun igin Fri, December 03, 2010 -- 4:32 PM ET ----- by Biodun Iginla, BBC News Diplomatic cables offer an intimate view of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni leader, who has become steadily more aggressive against Al Qaeda.
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Why Lieberman Had Nothing to Do With Amazon Dropping WikiLeaks
Topic: wikileaks, bbc news, biodun igin BY AUSTIN CARR This week, WikiLeaks briefly found its way on to Amazon's cloud hosting before being booted from the company's servers. The reason it was kicked off? After it surfaced that Senator Joe Lieberman's staff made inquiries into the companies relationship with WikiLeaks, the veteran Connecticut statesman quickly swept up the credit for Amazon's actions. Lieberman's office released a strongly worded statement ("Amazon severs ties with WikiLeaks"). Talking Points Memo took the bait ("How Lieberman Got Amazon To Drop WikiLeaks"), and other news outlets quickly parroted the story ("WikiLeaks Website Shut Down by Amazon & Joe Lieberman," said Computerworld.) But just how much influence did Lieberman yield? Does he really deserve credit here? When we spoke to communications director Leslie Phillips Wednesday, she spent time hedging Lieberman's involvement in the issue as chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. "First of all, the Senator didn't specifically ask Amazon to remove [WikiLeaks]," she began, explaining that staffers merely requested information from Amazon about its hosting of the confidential documents. Indeed, Lieberman's statement only said he wished Amazon had acted sooner, while calling on other providers not to host WikiLeaks. If Amazon hadn't removed WikiLeaks, then Lieberman would surely have taken action, right? "I'm not sure. I'm not sure if there are any actions," said Phillips. "This may have been a case where the most effective action was publicity." "Publicity" is the operative word here. In a statement released by Amazon today, the company said government pressure had nothing to do with removing WikiLeaks from its servers. "Amazon Web Services (AWS) rents computer infrastructure on a self-service basis. AWS does not pre-screen its customers, but it does have terms of service that must be followed. WikiLeaks was not following them," the statement read. "There have been reports that a government inquiry prompted us not to serve WikiLeaks any longer. That is inaccurate." [Photo: Unknown Wiki user]
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Hillary Clinton: Cabinet Post Will Be Last Public Job
Topic: hillary clinton, bbc news Breaking from Newsmax.com Hillary Rodham Clinton says her work as U.S. secretary of state will be her final public position. She told an interviewer in the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain that she does not plan to run for president. And she appeared to rule out taking any other public role, saying that instead she expects to return to private life as an advocate for women and children around the globe.
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NYT's Iran Missiles Walkback Paper discovers reasons for skepticism
Topic: fair, media, bbc news by Biodun Iginla, BBC News
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Website allows posting of kill-yourself messages....
Topic: suicide websites, bbc news by Rochelle van Amber for the BBC's Biodun Iginla CHICAGO, Dec. 3-- A Web site that allows the posting of anonymous messages such as "You should kill yourself" is gaining in popularity, Illinois officials said. The site, Formspring.me, is a little more than a year old and has nearly 20 million users worldwide, the Chicago Tribune reported. "It's like a bathroom wall," said Jim Koch, a school resource officer at Vernon Hills High School. "You write whatever you want." Vernon Hills is a Chicago suburb. Koch says he sees the message "You should kill yourself" frequently. Earlier this year, 17-year-old New York student Alexis Pilkington killed herself after being the target of hateful remarks on Formspring and other social networking sites -- before and after her death -- the newspaper said. "As horrible as it is, as much as we can tell them to stay off the site, they develop an obsession with knowing what people think," Koch said. Formspring spokeswoman Sarahjane Sacchetti says Formspring doesn't want to see the site misused. "Something that may happen on Facebook can happen behind closed doors," Sacchetti said. "Everything that happens on Formspring is open. We think anonymity is very positive. We think most people use it for good."
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Wikileaks cables criticise UK military in Afghanistan
Topic: wikileaks, bbc news, biodun igin 3 December 2010 Last updated at 07:14 ET
by Natalie de Vallieres, BBC News EU Desk, for the BBC's Biodun Iginla The latest US diplomatic documents released by Wikileaks contain harsh criticism of the UK military effort in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2009. The cables say US officials and Afghan President Hamid Karzai believed UK forces were not up to the task of securing Helmand province on their own. The president reportedly said he was relieved when US Marines were sent to the province. The details have been published in the Guardian newspaper. The number of British military deaths in operations in Afghanistan since 2001 currently stands at 345. In one cable, a US general, Dan McNeill, was said to be "particularly dismayed by the British effort" in fighting the drugs trade in Afghanistan. He is quoted as saying that British forces had "made a mess" of counter-narcotics operations in Helmand by employing the "wrong" tactics. Criticism of the British military effort goes back to 2007 when Gen McNeill was in charge of Nato forces. He criticised a deal with the Taliban which allowed British troops to be withdrawn from Musa Qala in 2006, saying it "opened the door to narco-traffickers in that area, and now it was impossible to tell the difference between the traffickers and the insurgents". 'Not ready to fight'A cable dated late 2008, from the US embassy, says "we and President Karzai agree that British forces are not up to the task of securing Helmand" without US support. In another cable, the then Afghan Foreign Minister, Rangin Dadfar Spanta, expressed disappointment at the ordering of an extra 2,000 British soldiers to Helmand, saying: "They were not ready to fight as actively as American soldiers." At a meeting with Senator John McCain in December 2008, President Karzai said he was relieved that US Marines were being sent to reinforce the British-led mission in Helmand and "related an anecdote in which a woman from Helmand asked him to 'take the British away and give us back the Americans'." According to the Guardian, criticism of the British operation in Helmand centres on its failure to establish security in Sangin. Helmand governor Gulab Mangal told a US team led by vice-president Joe Biden in January 2009 that American forces were urgently needed as British security in Sangin was inadequate. He is reported to have said British troops "must leave their bases and engage with the people". Former Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth told the BBC he could not understand why the leaked comments had been given such prominence. He said: "Some of these cables... are understandably contradictory. There's an allegation that British troops didn't go out of their bases. Our losses in Sangin were almost entirely on patrols in about the most dangerous part of the world. "This is gossip that was spilling out of an ongoing situation. It would be very surprising if people were not commenting on these different conversations that were going on, but it shouldn't be taken too seriously." Col Stuart Tootal, former commander of 3 Para, the first battle group sent to Helmand province, said the documents were not particularly relevant. He said: "They reflected individual views, within an alliance, which were also about a period where there were challenges due to a lack of resources. "We've now moved on significantly, we've now got 10,000 British troops, 30,000 Nato troops, and Nato has turned the corner. "But I think you'll also find these are views of people who aren't actually fighting in Helmand themselves, and don't necessarily realise the challenges they face." Responding to the latest leaks, a Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "UK forces did an excellent job in Sangin, an area which has always been and continues to be uniquely challenging, delivering progress by increasing security and taking the fight to the insurgency. "That work is now being continued by the US Marines as part of a hugely increased Isaf (Nato-led International Security Assistance Force) presence across the whole of Helmand province. "Both Afghan leaders, including the governor of Sangin, and the US Marines have publicly recognised and paid tribute to the sacrifice and achievements of the UK forces in that area." A Pentagon spokesman said the contribution and sacrifice of UK troops during the war in Afghanistan were "certainly recognised and appreciated" in the US. "Marine commanders on the ground in Afghanistan have publicly recognised that British forces did an excellent job in Sangin, an area which has been and continues to be uniquely challenging," he said. Meanwhile, former Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon revealed he had written a paper at the time of the Helmand deployment - which took place under his successor John Reid - raising concerns about the manpower available for the operation. Mr Hoon told the Times that his paper "basically said that we could do this, but only once we had drawn down significant numbers in Iraq".
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Respected media outlets collaborate with WikiLeaks
Topic: wikileaks, bbc news, biodun igin BY NATALIE DE VALLIERES AND BIODUN IGINLA, BBC NEWS 2 hours, 34 minutes ago
In this photo illustration, a "WikiLeaks" graphic is displayed on a laptop in a cafe on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010, New York. WikiLeaks' American domain name system provider withdrew service to the wikileaks.org name after the secret-spilling website once again became the target of hacker attacks. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)View more photos
PARIS — The diplomatic records exposed on the WikiLeaks website this week reveal not only secret government communications, but also an extraordinary collaboration between some of the world's most respected media outlets and the Wikileaks organization, just as U.S. officials target WikiLeaks in a criminal investigation. Unlike earlier disclosures by WikiLeaks of tens of thousands of secret government records, the group is releasing only a trickle of documents at a time from a trove of a quarter-million, and only after considering advice from five news organizations with which it chose to share all of the material. "They are releasing the documents we selected," Le Monde's managing editor, Sylvie Kauffmann, told us in an interview at the newspaper's Paris headquarters. WikiLeaks turned over all of the classified State Department cables it obtained to Le Monde, El Pais in Spain, The Guardian in Britain and Der Spiegel in Germany. The Guardian shared the material with the New York Times, and the five news organizations have been working together to plan the timing of their reports. They also have been advising WikiLeaks on which documents to release publicly and what redactions to make to those documents, Kauffmann and others involved in the arrangement said. Each publication suggested a way to remove names and details considered too sensitive, and "I suppose WikiLeaks chooses the one it likes," El Pais Editor Chief Javier Moreno told us at the BBC in a telephone interview from his Madrid office. As stories are published, WikiLeaks uses its website to release the related cables. For example, The Guardian published an article Thursday based on diplomatic cables discussing the assassination of former Russian security officer Alexander Litvinenko by radiation poisoning, and WikiLeaks quickly posted three cables on the same subject. The close arrangement is unusual because it ties the media outlets more closely to WikiLeaks, and reveals an unusual collaboration with an organization facing a U.S. criminal investigation. "In this case, what you have is news organizations partnering with an organization that very clearly has a different set of values," said Kelly McBride , a journalism ethics professor at The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. But McBride notes that the unique collaboration also forces some degree of journalistic standards on WikiLeaks, which in the past has released documents without removing information considered sensitive. New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller told readers in an online exchange that the newspaper has suggested to its media partners and to WikiLeaks what information it believes should be withheld. "We agree wholeheartedly that transparency is not an absolute good," Keller wrote. "Freedom of the press includes freedom not to publish, and that is a freedom we exercise with some regularity." Days before releasing any of the latest documents, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appealed to the U.S. ambassador in London, asking the U.S. government to confidentially help him determine what needed to be redacted from the cables before they were publicly released. The ambassador refused, telling Assange to hand over stolen property. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley called Assange's offer "a half-hearted gesture to have some sort of conversation." U.S. officials submitted suggestions to The Times, which asked government officials to weigh in on some of the documents the newspaper and its partners wanted to publish. "The other news organizations supported these redactions," Keller wrote. "WikiLeaks has indicated that it intends to do likewise. And as a matter of news interest, we will watch their website to see what they do." While Keller has emphasized to readers that the Times is "not a 'media partner'" of WikiLeaks and that it did not receive the State Department documents from WikiLeaks, his public comments describe a working relationship with the group on the release of the material and decisions to withhold certain information. Keller told the AP in an e-mail Thursday that advising WikiLeaks about removing names and other sensitive details is the responsible thing to do. "We have no way of knowing what WikiLeaks will do, no clear idea what they make of our redactions, but if this to any degree prevents WikiLeaks from carelessly getting someone killed, I'm happy to do it," he said. "I'd be interested to hear the arguments in favor of having WikiLeaks post its material unredacted." U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said this week there is "an active, ongoing, criminal investigation" into WikiLeaks' release of the material. He said it jeopardized national security, diplomatic efforts and U.S. relationships around the world. He declined to equate WikiLeaks to traditional news organizations that enjoy certain free-speech protections. "I think one can compare the way in which the various news organizations that have been involved in this have acted, as opposed to the way in which WikiLeaks has," Holder said. He did not elaborate on the distinction he sees between WikiLeaks and the publications. Although WikiLeaks has said it will ultimately post its trove online, The Times said it intends to publish only about 100 or so of the records. And the other news organizations that have the material said they likely will release only a fraction. "We are releasing only what is interesting," Le Monde's Kauffmann said. "I couldn't tell you the proportion, but the vast majority of these documents are of no journalistic interest." She said there was "no written contract" among the organizations and WikiLeaks on the use of the material. "The conditions were that we could ourselves -- that's to say our journalists and those at the other newspapers -- do our own selection, our own triage," and select which documents to withhold from public view, Kauffmann said. The media outlets agreed to work together, with about 120 journalists in total working on the project, at times debating which names of people cited in the documents could be published. "With this, I really think we have taken all the possible precautions," Kauffmann said. "At times, it comes up that we'll discuss it between us, with the other papers, on some points. One of us struck too much out and another said 'Come on, it's about a high official, we can leave his/her name in. There won't be any reprisals.'" Le Monde and El Pais came into the media partnership late, about a month ago. The Times, Guardian and Spiegel had already done quite a bit of work on the documents and shared it, El Pais' Moreno said. Kauffmann declined to say how or when WikiLeaks contacted the publications about the documents. They began sorting through the material after WikiLeaks obtained it. Some news organizations, including AP and The Washington Post, also have sought access to the documents, but they were denied because of the arrangement between the five media partners. The Post reported this week that WikiLeaks approached CNN and the Wall Street Journal about receiving the documents and asked them to sign confidentiality agreements that would have entitled WikiLeaks to a payment of around $100,000 if the partner broke the embargo. The two news organizations declined. Kauffmann said there was no financial agreement with WikiLeaks. "Never has anyone asked to pay anything, and if they had, we probably -- certainly -- would not have done so, because we never pay for news." Again, talks between Wikileaks and the BBC were private and therefore points of discussion cannot be disclosed at this time. ___
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