{"id":23159,"date":"2010-11-28T23:28:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T23:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/us_embassy_cables_leak_sparks_global_diplomatic_crisis\/"},"modified":"2010-11-28T23:28:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-28T23:28:24","slug":"us_embassy_cables_leak_sparks_global_diplomatic_crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23159","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) US embassy cables leak sparks global diplomatic crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among scores of disclosures that are likely to cause uproar, the cables detail:<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u00a2 Grave fears in Washington and London over the security of Pakistan&#8217;s nuclear weapons programme, with officials warning that as the country faces economic collapse, government employees could smuggle out enough nuclear material for terrorists to build a bomb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u00a2 Suspicions of corruption in the Afghan government, with one cable alleging that vice president Zia Massoud was carrying $52m in cash when he was stopped during a visit to the United Arab Emirates. Massoud denies taking money out of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u00a2 How the hacker attacks which forced Google to quit China in January were orchestrated by a senior member of the Politburo who typed his own name into the global version of the search engine and found articles criticising him personally&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/nov\/28\/us-embassy-cable-leak-diplomacy-crisis\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among scores of disclosures that are likely to cause uproar, the cables detail: \u201d\u00a2 Grave fears in Washington and London over the security of Pakistan&#8217;s nuclear weapons programme, with officials warning that as the country faces economic collapse, government employees<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23159\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,144,119,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}