Photo Gallery: How the US Sees Select World Politicians

Photo Gallery: How the US Sees Select World Politicians

The World Reacts to Massive Diplomatic Leak

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, depicted as a vain party animal in the US State Department cables disclosed by WikiLeaks on Sunday, "had a good laugh" upon learning of the revelations. Others aren't as sanguine. A US Representative wants to designate the Internet platform as a terrorist organization. more...

• Photo Gallery: How the US Sees Select World Politicians
• Diplomats or Spooks? How US Diplomats Were Told to Spy on UN and Ban Ki-Moon
• Former US Ambassador Talks about Wikileaks: 'There Will Be Lots of Drama'

The US Diplomatic Leaks

A Superpower's View of the World

251,000 State Department documents, many of them secret embassy reports from around the world, show how the US seeks to safeguard its influence around the world. It is nothing short of a political meltdown for US foreign policy. By SPIEGEL Staff more... [ Forum ]

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• The Germany Dispatches: Internal Source Kept US Informed of Merkel Coalition Negotiations
• Orders from Clinton: US Diplomats Told to Spy on Other Countries at United Nations
• 'Tribune of Anatolia': Diplomatic Cables Reveal US Doubts about Turkey's Government
• WikiLeaks FAQ: What Do the Diplomatic Cables Really Tell Us?

Diplomats or Spooks?

How US Diplomats Were Told to Spy on UN and Ban Ki-Moon

The US State Department gave its diplomats instructions to spy on other countries' representatives at the United Nations, according to a directive signed by Hillary Clinton. Diplomats were told to collect information about e-mail accounts, passwords and encryption keys, credit cards, biometric information and a whole lot more. By Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark more...

Data being examined

Merkel fears bigger damage

The political Berlin reacts nervously towards the publication of confidential US papers through the internet platform Wikileaks though there are some statements which maintain the opposite. The govt is in concern about the foreign relation consequences, for Germany also. Internally, the informant of the Americans is also looked for.... although only a little bit. ....»

• Press voices

  „Enlightment works diffrently“

• Kommentary

  It's wrong to do so

• Remark

  The internet eats its children

• Picture series

  Lame ducks, incompetent ministers, red populists

• "Young, aspiring " Politician

  Riddles about the lib dem informant

• "911 for the global diplomacy"

  Wikileaks harms trust

• "You have to restart nearly at zero"

  Wikileaks "presents" US-diplomats

• Arabic ruler triggered first pulse

  Wikileaks: Kim supplied Iran

• Together as one against WikiLeaks

  Australia triggers Assange

• Diplomat of the other kind

  Murphy fronts revelations

• Video

  German politicians steadfast

• Video

  Westerwelle "inkompetent and aggressive"