Wikileaks revela degradantes segredos mundiais: um super-escândalo para muitos governos mundias

Vejam a quantidade de "segredos" e escandâlos que isto irá causar. Assim já podemos saber mais coisinhas daquelas que os nossos governos andam a fazer. Do Guardian:

The United States was catapulted into a worldwide diplomatic crisis today, with the leaking to the Guardian and other international media of more than 250,000 classified cables from its embassies, many sent as recently as February this year.

At the start of a series of daily extracts from the US embassy cables - many of which are designated "secret" – the Guardian can disclose that Arab leaders are privately urging an air strike on Iran and that US officials have been instructed to spy on the UN's leadership.

Among scores of other disclosures that are likely to cause uproar, the cables detail:

• Grave fears in Washington and London over the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme

• Alleged links between the Russian government and organised crime.

• Devastating criticism of the UK's military operations in Afghanistan.

• Claims of inappropriate behaviour by a member of the British royal family.

The material includes a reference to Vladimir Putin as an "alpha-dog", Hamid Karzai as being "driven by paranoia" and Angela Merkel allegedly "avoids risk and is rarely creative". There is also a comparison between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Adolf Hitler.

The cables published today reveal how the US uses its embassies as part of a global espionage network, with diplomats tasked to obtain not just information from the people they meet, but personal details, such as frequent flyer numbers, credit card details and even DNA material.

The most controversial target was the leadership of the United Nations. That directive requested the specification of telecoms and IT systems used by top UN officials and their staff and details of "private VIP networks used for official communication, to include upgrades, security measures, passwords, personal encryption keys".

He also said, according to Lamo, that Clinton "and several thousand diplomats around the world are going to have a heart attack when they wake up one morning and find an entire repository of classified foreign policy is available in searchable format to the public … everywhere there's a US post … there's a diplomatic scandal that will be revealed"

Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has released 250,000 secret messages sent by US embassies which give an insight into current American global concerns. Concerns include the security of Pakistani nuclear material that could be used to make an atomic weapon. The widespread use of hacking by the Chinese government is also reported.

Melhor ainda, do Público,

EUA espiaram líderes estrangeiros.

Entre as revelações estão a indicação de que os EUA mandaram espiar o secretário-geral das Nações Unidas, Ban Ki-moon, e os representantes dos outros membros permanentes do Conselho de Segurança – França, Reino Unido, China e Rússia.

Próximos alvos da Wikileaks serão um grande banco-americano, o Vaticano, Israel e Coreia do Norte.