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Latest. malini? it s a quarter million diplomatic tables, they ve posted them on the site and advanced access to several news organization which published some of the material over the course of this information. there s information on critical hot spots. north and south korea, pakistan and iran. on iran, the cables reveal how many arab leaders want to end iran s nuclear program and saudi arabia repeatedly asked washington to attack iran to quote, cut the head of the snake. another describes the missile strikes of al-qaeda in yemen. with the president of yemen telling general petraeus, we ll continue to say the bombs are ours and not yours. basically that the yemeni president will lie to his own people who was responsible for those strikes. wikileaks founder says no one has ever been harmed by his website s publications, but the white house thinks the leaks are dangerous, saying in a statement, quote, should be ....
Clear such disclosures put at risk our diplomates, intelligence professionals and people around the world who come to the united states for assistance in promoting democracy and open government. now, secretary of state hillary clinton has been calling foreign leaders over the past days attempting advanced damage control. some analysts say this document dump will likely harm our relations with other countries. one of the sayings in the intelligence community, sometimes you have to hide the truth to get the truth. this is one of the instances where hiding truth was in the best interest of most countries so there s no real whistle blowing here, it s poking people in the eye. who is responsible for the leak? nobody s been charged, but suspicion is focusing on army private bradley manning, arrested back in june and charged with an earlier leak. harris? all right, malini, thank you very much. we appreciate your reporting on this. we do have some more reaction about this and we want to ....
Putting the lives of intelligence agencies, at refshg. we are an expecting more documents to drop tomorrow and malini wilkes is live with us for exactly what we re seeing in the documents. malini. harris earlier you and i discussed what was in the documents, but they include frank and unflattering personal comments by leaders and perhaps why secretary of state was calling foreign capital in advance to try to smooth things over and describe germany s angela merkel as avoiding risk and rarely creative. and karzai as quote, driven by paranoia and libya s gadhafi, he goes everywhere with a ukrainian voluptuous nurse. harris: is it possible that some of this embarrassing stuff could give us some insight? it s who we re dealing with ....
Stegall, thank you very much. rising tensions today between north and south korea. the north is warning that the two countries are at the brink of war. as the united states and south korea are pushing ahead with war games and now china is getting involved. the south is also facing heat from its own people. they re angry with the country s response to tuesday s attacks. malini wilkes live from washington for us now, malini. north korea is now trying to justify the shelling of that south korean island, suggesting both south korea and the u.s. shared some of the responsibility. and tuesday s bombardment killed four people, two marines and two civilians and destroyed a number of homes building and reconstruction continue today and the north declared that south korea is mostly at assault, claiming that seoul was using civilians as a human shield behind the artillery positions and exploited for propaganda. as they looked for tougher action, they accused of u.s. ....
I can t i don t want to mess with that. a lot of people were at home for the thanksgiving day holiday. people taking back to the roadways flying again, perhaps, maybe hitting the trains and public transportation at a time when public anger is growing over all these invasive security measures at airports. could we start to see them elsewhere? malini wilkes joining us live from washington, d.c. this morning. good morning to you, malini. are we talking trains and buses now? well, that s not on the horizon just yet. the homeland security secretary is expressing concerns about terrorists tarrigeting other mos of transportation. that passenger threat to slow down travel by opting out of those new revealing scanning machines. homeland security secretary janet napolitano defended the machines in an interview this week saying they give us a much better chance to find liquids or gels to find in explosives. they are thinking what ....