The Guardian: US Embassies Part of Global Espionage Network
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Diplomats in the US embassies worldwide were ordered not only to obtain information but also personal information, even DNA material!
The cables published on Sunday reveal how the US uses its embassies as part of a global espionage network. According to the Guardian, one of the five world newspapers that obtained the documents, diplomats were 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.
Classified "human intelligence directives" issued in the name of Hillary Clinton or her predecessor, Condoleeza Rice, these instruct officials to gather information on military installations, weapons markings, vehicle details of political leaders as well as iris scans, fingerprints and DNA.
Last spring, 22-year-old intelligence analyst Bradley Manning was charged with leaking many of these cables, along with a gun-camera video of an Apache helicopter crew mistakenly killing two Reuters news agency employees in Baghdad in 2007, which was subsequently posted by WikiLeaks.
In July and October WikiLeaks also published thousands of leaked military reports from Afghanistan and Iraq.
A former hacker, Adrian Lamo, who reported Manning to the US authorities, said the soldier had told him in chat messages that the cables revealed "how the first world exploits the third, in detail".
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".
Click here to see ALL the US Embassy Cables Documents
Diplomats in the US embassies worldwide were ordered not only to obtain information but also personal information, even DNA material!
The cables published on Sunday reveal how the US uses its embassies as part of a global espionage network. According to the Guardian, one of the five world newspapers that obtained the documents, diplomats were 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.
Classified "human intelligence directives" issued in the name of Hillary Clinton or her predecessor, Condoleeza Rice, these instruct officials to gather information on military installations, weapons markings, vehicle details of political leaders as well as iris scans, fingerprints and DNA.
Last spring, 22-year-old intelligence analyst Bradley Manning was charged with leaking many of these cables, along with a gun-camera video of an Apache helicopter crew mistakenly killing two Reuters news agency employees in Baghdad in 2007, which was subsequently posted by WikiLeaks.
In July and October WikiLeaks also published thousands of leaked military reports from Afghanistan and Iraq.
A former hacker, Adrian Lamo, who reported Manning to the US authorities, said the soldier had told him in chat messages that the cables revealed "how the first world exploits the third, in detail".
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".
Click here to see ALL the US Embassy Cables Documents
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