The US deputy ambassador, David Pressman, said: "One of us, perversely the president of council, is determined for the killing to continue, and is helping carry it out".
"Countries that don't have a lot in common and countries that don't always co-operate with us are starting to stand up," Tony Blinken, the US deputy national security adviser, said on Friday in an interview with MSNBC.
Brazil's then vice-environment minister, Izabella Teixeira, had spoken to the US deputy chief of mission, Lisa Kubiske, "on the idea of a partnership with the US" involving political dialogue and concrete technical projects on climate change.
A tricky Today programme cameo by former US deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz.
"There is a cauldron of anxiety about China," the US deputy secretary of state, Robert Zoellick, said in September.
Hague pledged his own loyalty in an earlier meeting with the US deputy chief of mission, Richard LeBaron.
The dispute rumbled on, and two weeks later, Thatcher met the US deputy secretary of state, Kenneth Dam.
The Snowden stories were edited from New York by Gibson, and Guardian US deputy editor Stuart Millar.
"Karzai's side is in some disarray," says a dispatch from Francis Ricciardone, the US deputy ambassador in Kabul.
In the late 1990s Larry Summers, then the US deputy treasury secretary, warned that the world economy was "flying on one engine".
