Wikileaks’ US cable spills worry Aquino
By Aytch S. de la Cruz and Michaela P. del Callar 12/01/2010President Aquino showed alarm over the extent of classified information the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, could get from various countries given the volume of diplomatic cables of the United States government it was able to crack open.
Aquino, in an interview after gracing an event inside Malacañang’s Heroes Hall, hinted that every confidential intelligence information that is being disclosed by Wikileaks in its online domain may spell danger to a country’s national security, especially when the document is taken out of context.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), however, was far more calm as it said it was premature to make an assessment on how the leaked US diplomatic cables would impact on the Philippines’ ties with Washington.
Web site Wikileaks and media organiza-tions, which obtained advance copies of the memos, disclosed that 1,794 classified com-munications from the American Embassy in Manila were among the 251,287 US
diplomatic dispatches from its embassies worldwide that were released online on Sunday..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101201hed3.html
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¶1. (S) Like PFC Bradley Manning, it is with regret to the USG for supporting the candidacy of the current administration in the Philippines. Benigno Aquino's fitness to serve US interests were overestimated...
SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
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¶2. (S) Boy Abunda is a special friend to the Philippine President through his celebrity sister Kris Aquino. Emphasis on special relationships were made evident with the president offering appointment of the celebrity and entertainment gossip show host to an important cabinet position...
THE INNER CIRCLE
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¶3. (S) Benigno Aquino appoints his classmate Atty. Pacquito Ochoa as Executive Secretary, at this point Boy Abunda disclosed that getting a job at the presidential palace requires a different kind of CESO that which has nothing to do with the Civil Service Commission. DAS George asks for clarification. Boy Abunda replies that it is a joke turned reality that CESO no longer stands for Career Executive Service Officers who are not imune to EO 2, the entertainment gossip host then underlines that it now meant Classmate of Executive Secretary Ochoa.
Ito ba kinatatakot niya? Getting outed by Noy's peers. Its not news anymore.
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