Sentence examples for diplomatic files from inspiring English sources
The Vatican archives, meanwhile, hardly helped the pope's case by refusing, for technical reasons, to open critical diplomatic files to scholars.Still, historians are reassessing the record.
Bradley Manning 2010 CASE An Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking archives of military and diplomatic files to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks.
The 44-year-old believes that if he travels to Sweden to answer the allegations, he may be extradited to the US to face trial over the publication of classified US military and diplomatic files.
Mr. Benkler's testimony briefly shifted the focus back to WikiLeaks, which in 2010 enjoyed fame and endured criticism over the leaks of hundreds of thousands of secret United States military and diplomatic files.
Bradley Manning, on Thursday confessed in open court to providing vast archives of military and diplomatic files to the antisecrecy group WikiLeaks, saying that he had released the information to help enlighten the public about "what happens and why it happens" and to "spark a debate about foreign policy".
Pfc. Bradley Manning on Thursday confessed in open court to providing vast archives of military and diplomatic files to the antisecrecy group WikiLeaks, saying he wanted the information to become public "to make the world a better place," Charlie Savage writes in The New York Times.
During a hearing in February, he confessed to having provided to WikiLeaks videos of airstrikes in which civilians were killed, a quarter-million diplomatic cables, assessment files of detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and logs of military incident reports from Iraq and Afghanistan.
In recent months, Private Manning's supporters have criticized his treatment as unduly harsh, contending that he is being pressured to agree to implicate Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks co-founder, as a conspirator in the leaking of diplomatic and military files.
The Australian, who has denied sexual assault and no charge has been brought against him, believes that an American grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks, which has published thousands of diplomatic and military files, means he would be extradited to the US should he reach Sweden.
Assange, an Australian former computer hacker, made headlines around the world with revelations from secret US military files and diplomatic cables released by his controversial whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.
The plane was denied diplomatic immunity, and court files exposed what appears to be a royal lie about its once-murky origins.
