apparently, those are not part of what wikileaks has. so we're getting a very mid level examination of what goes on. not a high level. >> you are not saying, are you, that this is much adieu about nothing? >> no, of course not. and it's serious and the attention it's received, i think it's appropriate. the press is to be commended for dealing with this responsibly. the "the new york times" which had advanced access said they are withholding some data that might harm operations or reveal sources. so it's being done in a more responsible way at their level. but as they pointed out, wikileaks is going to put this out and somebody is surely going to publish all of it. i mean, i guess at some point it's all going to be available on the internet. if somebody wants to take a ten-year vacation, they can read it all. >> larry: more with bob woodward right after this. let me tell you about a very important phone call i made. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the

officials seek to control the damage as wikileaks exposes classified diplomatic cables. >> a billion year route bailout for ireland fails to impress global equity markets. >> omar khaddafi demands more assistance from europe at the start of the you africa summit. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> we begin in washington, where u.s. officials are attempting to limit the damage from a massive release of classified diplomatic cables revealed by the whistle- blower in website wikileaks. a short while ago, secretary of state hillary clinton refused to comment on what she called stolen u.s. classified information, but did issue an apology to american partners and allies around the world. >> the united states deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts, or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations. i want to make clear that our official foreign-policy is n set through these messages, but here in washington. >> for more, we asked our washington correspond

they're angry and frustrated with wikileaks. they cannot believe that there negotiated with -- negotiations would be conducted in good faith. could they have prevented some of this serious damage they claim is a result? walerga no. >> is there a value for the public to read these documents? >> i believe there is of value. to the extent that these documents reveal contradictions between what we're being told by our leaders and diplomats in public and the information they are conveying in private. that can point out inconsistencies and contradictions and it is clear that the way wikileaks has done this is reckless. i see that very seriously and cautiously. a lot of these documents were part conversations that should have been kept private. there is no doubt that foreign policy has to be conducted in public in secret. what happens if the diplomats do not feel that their private conversations can be protected? our officials s -- we will be living in a world of constant spend. it will put a chilling effect on discussions worldwide. t

government prepares as wikileaks releases 250,000 sensitive documents. the state department is red face this had morning. >> investigators are trying to determine the cause of an apartment fire that left two people injured including a firefighter. >>> here is a live look from downtown san francisco, embarcadero clear sky, some of the frost that is forming around the bay will be short-lived. warmer weather so wait and more rain for the weekend. >>> i'm frances dinglasan, in the traffic center, we're off to a good start, back to work, no major delays right now at bay bridge toll plaza and update on an earlier problem. >> good morning. it's 6:01 on this monday morning. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton will address from central asia the serious blow on relations with other countries of a quarter million secret documents by wikileaks part of what secretary clinton is damage control. the documents contain embarrassing anecdotes from consulates around the world. they reveal for example, arab countries growing fears about iran's nuclear program. some urgin

wikileaks was going to publish them. the question that we had was could we along the way provide a context for them so that people understood where they advanced our knowledge and where we already knew as mr. rubin has suggested, that the broad contour of these events. and in some cases-- and scott can speak to this as well-- the times acted as a bit of an intermediary going back from... to other publications. the "guardian," der spiegel and others to convoy to them what some of the u.s. government requests were for some redactions. the "times" had gone through this material to make sure that individual sources had not been revealed, that individuals who could be retaliated against, dissidents, that their names were struck out. but we also took these documents to the u.s. government to say "if we've missed anything along those lines, please let us know." they came back with some things they asked to be redacted. we did some of them, we did not do all of them. conversations that were merely embarrassing because it was the

james ball works for wikileaks. did wikileaks approach this release differently? >> this new release is being staged. each cable that's published has been reviewed and redacted. and that will continue for the future releases. >> reporter: i asked assange who he's targeting with this release, and he wrote a few moments ago, lying, corrupt and murderous leadership from bahrain to brazil. and, diane, he added, we're only 1,000th of the way in, so much more to come. >> so much more to come. and jim, of course, everyone asking how they got in his hands. and you may remember the 22-year-old soldier, private first class bradley manning, suspected of passing on the documents to wikileaks. he was hooked into the document's network through his job as one of many intelligence analysts. tonight, manning is in custody. new clues about his possible methods and motives. and here's terry moran. >> reporter: since july, private first class bradley manning has been held in a military brig in quantico, virginia, charged with releasing this classified video of a 2007 helicopter attac

diplomacy by the website wikileaks. many of the cables, some considered secret, come from the obama administration but also stretch back decades. they showed diplomats -- diplomats and the bus officials take of foreign leaders and the role of diplomats abroad and concerns about a nuclear iran. our question, does the wikileaks release hurt u.s. diplomacy? the numbers to call -- you can also e-mail us. and you can find us on twitter. at "the new look york times," one of the newspapers the wikileaks information went to. "the new york times" said it got this from a source that had information about the cables given to wikileaks and now starting to trickle out on line. many stories. let's get started with this. looking at the implications of this, the story goes on to say -- looking at what the cables had to say, going down to another "new york times" article. in talks about in late may of 2000 and is valid defense minister made a visit to the congressional delegation to send a pointed message to the president. we will get t

gan -- guantanamo and wikileaks. in all of these, you now have to deal with outstanding men and women not just in uniform, but outstanding men and women like elizabeth, who are at the top of their game and terrific professionals finding their own pressures and constraints in today's communications environment. you're finding the rise of celebrity status and a new importance on standing out from the crowd that in my view gives rise to some sensationalism and some celebrity focus that wasn't there even a decade ago. you have lives blurred between fact and opinion between reality and image and even the determination of who is up and who is down, so i think in this institution i'm hope -- discussion i hope to have an opportunity to not just talk about military versus the media, but how the communications environment has changed for all of us on issues we never thought we had to deal with before are all dealing with often times without guidance or precedence. >> thank you. general, would you like to? >> sure. i have a ten

the real question is who is feeding wikileaks on this issue? they're getting a lot of information which seems trivial, inconsequential but some of it seems surprisingly pointed. >> woodruff: what are you referring to? >> well, for example, the references to a report about our officials that some chinese leaders favor a reunified korea under south korea. this is clearly designed to embarrass the chinese and our relationship with them. the very pointed references to arab leaders could house their objective undermining their political credibility at home. because this kind of public identification of their hostility towards iran could actually play against them at home. >> woodruff: and i want to ask you about that because the impression is-- and i want to turn to steve hadly on this as well-- saudi arabia has not been public about its view. we heard the quote from king abdullah that the u.s. or israel should go after iran. and its nuclear weapons program. so what effect could this have now that that's out there that it's confirmed. >> actually i

wikileaks is another one of these. in my view, it's the template of the inability of policy and law to keep up with technology. >> right. >> you now have the ability to send anything, anywhere, to anyone at any time. >> uh-huh. >> in doing so, i think wikileaks has given whistleblowers a bad name. there are absolutely justifiable reasons for whistleblower to want to make available information that they honestly and truly believe people needs to know if they have been mislead. i think here this is a different case. >> right. >> i'm not sure what the journalistic credentials of our wikileaks. >> right. >> you are hundreds of thousands of documents that have been released illegal. ly. they are in the possession of wikileak illegally. >> right. >> they contain information that could put the lives of men and women in uniform at great danger. that point was made very strongly in the first batch that was released. the founder of wikileaks said they made an attempt to do redaction. they didn't have the expertise to do it. in f

trying in any way to stop wikileaks? >> it is very interesting to watch.n terms of their public pronouncements at least, the united states has been much quieter on this than it was when wikileaks released the afghanistan and iraq war documents. noise was made by the united states particularly around the release of the after galveston war documents. and then a month or so later, the secretary of defense had to come out and say that actually the warnings that intelligence sources could be harmed or killed as a result of the leak was unfounded. >> do we know when the documents are going to be released by wikileaks? >> we don't know, but at some point over the weekend. likely sunday. the state department is gearing up for a week release. >> reporting there from washington. now the west's strategy of talking to the taliban in afghanistan has been dealt a severe blow after it emerged a senior militant involved in the negotiations was an imposter. he was paid thousands of dollars before disappearing. here is our security correspondent, grand gardener. >> at this

the website wikileaks has gone public with u.s. state secrets, thousands of them. a massive coordinated leak of documents, seemingly designed to hurt the united states, its power, prestige and influence around the world. as a leading german newspaper put it today, never before in history has a superpower lost control of such vast amounts of such sensitive information. while diplomats will find all the blunt language familiar, it's meant to be secret. and now that it's out, it will no doubt hurt the ability of the u.s. to do business around the world. and there's more on the way. we begin our coverage tonight with our chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell on our washington newsroom. andrea, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. today, the u.s. tried to project that foreign policy would not be seriously harmed by the flood of leaked cables, even as officials worked overtime to limit the damage. the damage control started at the state department with an apology. >> the united states deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was int

sights on the department documents, wikileaks trains its sights on the financial industry. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning, everybody, and thanks for joining us, i'm betty nguyen. a hostage standoff at a wisconsin high school is over. the drama ended last night when the 15-year-old gunman shot himself. he held 23 classmates hostage in marinette, wisconsin, for about five hours. tammy elliot is there with details. good morning, what's the latest? >> reporter: police are still here at the school this morning investigating after they say that 15-year-old student turned on his fellow classmates yesterday afternoon in school. and while everyone is relieved, they are still asking why this happened. but they're glad that 23 students and a teacher are alive. students at wisconsin's marinette high school are relieved but shaken this morning. >> i'm just, you know, scared to go back to school. because you never know what can happen. it could happen again. >> reporter: just before classes let out monday, police say a fellow student pulled out a gun in class and fired two sho

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as for wikileaks, julian assange had no he criticized the u.s. state department. >> probably not seen anything at all, having seen the abuses by that organization. >> reporter: they say there is more to come. this is the first in a series with more expected to be released over the next few months. >>> the teenager accused of setting go off a car bomb at a christmas tree lighting ceremony is due to make his first appearance in court today. the mosque where he worshipped was damaged early sunday morning by friday. police believe it was arson. they say the 19-year-old suspect was thinking of committing some form of violent jihad since he was 15 years old. >> after being cautioned by undercover officers there would be women and children involved, he made it very clear that he was determined to make an attack. >> he was described as quiet, smart and polite. he dropped out of school in october. he had no formal ties to terrorist groups but tried to contact suspected terrorist groups in pakistan. >>> leslie neilson is being remembered for all the laughs

wikileaks released new documents from the state department. what they reveal, including what the u.s. thinks of european leaders, just ahead on kron 4 news. our points from chase sapphire preferred are worth 25% more on travel. we're like forget florida, we're going on a safari. so we're on the serengeti, and seth finds a really big bone. we're talking huge. they dig it up, put it in the natural history museum and we get to name it. sethasauraus. really. your points from chase sapphire preferred are worth 25% more on travel? means better vacations. that's incredible. believe it...with chase sapphire preferred your points are worth 25% more on travel when booked through ultimate rewards. >>> a student armed with a gun held two dozen people hostage in a wic class room. it lasted about five hours. it ended after police stormed inside. the gunman shot himself. no word on his condition. a man accused of trying to detonate a bomb pleated not guilty. mohamed osman mohamud was arrested friday night following an fbi sting operation in which he was give

as for wikileaks, the founder has no regrets releasing the information. speaking via video link, he crit -- criticized the u.s. state department. >> it would mean not publishing the abuses by that organization. >> there is more to come. today's released is the first of the planned releases over the next few months. alan? >> thank you very much. >>> actor leslie nielsen died today. >> anybody get the license plate? >> the bumbling detective from the "naked gun" comedies passed away in fort lauderdale, florida. and he played the doctor in the classic "airplane" and his dry stone-faced lines made their way into our everyday banter at school and home and in the workplace. >> can you fly this plane and land it? >> surely you can't be serious. >> i am serious, and don't call me shirley. >> but nielsen was a dramatic actor in "the forbidden planet." the native of canada died from complications of pneumonia. leslie nielsen was 84 years old. >>> napa police shot and killed a 60-year-old man during a confrontation in front of his home. neighbors identified the dead

in material released by wikileaks and quoted in major papers, u.s. diplomats refer to russian prime minister vladimir putin as an alpha dog and to his protÉge medvedev as afraid, hesitant. german chancellor merkel is called teflon, a leader who avoids risks and is rarely creative. french president sarkozy is called a naked emperor. afghan president karzai is characterized as being driven by paranoia. libya leader adaffi is said to be rarely without the company of his ukrainian nurse, described as a volume up does blond. secretary of state hillary clinton whose department has known for some time which confidential documents wikileaks was planning to release spent much of last week in damage control mode. clinton called officials in germany, france, canada, china, saudi arabia, the gulf states and afghanistan to offer apologies in advance. white house press secretary gibbs said the document release reckless and dangerous and noted that field reporting like this is candid and often incomplete information. diplomats from every government sent home unflat

the founder of wikileaks says his next target is big business.e says coming up in january will be a wikileaks look at a major american bank. the u.s. state department is trying to clean up the mess now on its hands following the release of hundreds of thousands of highly sensitive documents. >> it puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems. >> some revelations include details of discussions about quantanamo detainees. secret attacks on suspected al-queda targets and arab leaders concerned with iran's nuclear program. the movers and shakers would have it behind closed doors but things wikileaks believes everyone has the right to know. >> it's 4:37 and you have a right to know what it's like as you head into work. >> so chilly again this morning. >> it is. didn't have to scrape this morning though, mike. >> yeah. the fog wasn't as thick as my house either, eric. that's due to the fact how clouds are starting to roll in, keeping the temperatures a li

host: she mentions wikileaks.e have been talking about this, all of the cables that have been released. do you expect to hear that come up as a topic debated on the hill this week? guest: i think people will start calling for hearings, which will have bn almost immediately. people already hinted hearings need to take place. this is one of the issues that will catch fire on the hill and the ball will start talking about it, ways congress can tighten the intelligence community and prevent this from happening. when republicans take over they are planning a lot of investigations and hearings. darrell eisa- issa from california, would not be rprised if the ways in, peter king of new york, these are kinds of the things they will talk about. host: don't ask the-don't tell. senator lynsey graham tried to dampen hopes of don't ask-don't tell opponents. guest: that seems like it is a pretty apt observation. the house has already taken action and they will tell you this is one of the many things that have taken action on tha

. >> i think wikileaks -- i think wikileaks is the template for arrogance, self-right -- self-righteousness. they got an award in 2008 for being the best new media in the u.k., and a couple of months ago joined four other human rights organizations in writing to wikileaks saying that you're putting the lives of people in danger. >> yeah. >> as this whole issue evolves and emerges and as there are no absolute in what we do, i would say there's a couple of absolutes. one is the documents they have have been obtained illegally and are being used illegally. second, they don't have the expertise to know how to eliminate information that could be dangering our men and women in uniform. third, it is a glaring example of how technology has outpaced law and policy. >> yeah. i noticed one thing that it did in a rare point of conversion it brought the "washington post" and the times together. that doesn't happen very often. i wanted to make clear that i wasn't saying jeff was saying it should be bombed or even cyberdisabled through cyberspace, but there are people out there that have written they have

guilty before charges have even been filed. >> wikileaks and people that disseminate information to people like this are criminals. >> reporter: wikileaks founder julian assange has not revealed who gaye him the documents, but officials believe it was army private bradley manning. he's in a military prison in virginia charged with leaking other classified information that investigators believe he downloaded while serving as a u.s. intelligence officer in iraq. on capitol hill, some republicans are calling on the justice department to put assange behind bars, too, under the charge of espionage. but that won't be easy. for starters, assange is an australian citizen whose whereabouts are currently unknown and the espionage laws are outdated, written during world war i. >> those were designed for a different era, a different kind of espionage threat. they talk about sketches and code books and signal books. they weren't designed to deal with a mass leak on the internet >> reporter: the white house has ordered a government-wide crackdown on how classified information is handled to try to

that is one thing revealed in new documents from wikileaks. over to mark sayer with newly released documents. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. these are showing a unique connection. the chinese government was behind a hacking attack of google systems in 2009 new york times reporting u.s. embassy in beijing was told by its contact the chinese bureau, directed the intrusion into googles computer systems. those documents go on to say google hacking was part of a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage carried out by government operatives private security expertinternet outlaws are you cross-suited by the chinese government. -- recruited by the chinese government. >> i agree with the pentagons assessment the people at wick can wikileaks could have blood on their hands. >> reporter: they call the french president sakosi and talk about others. >>> google said the apparent target of the attacks against its systems was g mail accounts belonging to human rights activists. >> mark sayer in mountain view. >>> time 6:03 a.m. san francisco offici

and wikileaks or to show the u.s. spying on its allies, and turning a blind eye to corruption, human rights abuse and making backroom deals. and lobby for u.s. corporations. and wikileaks founder. >> ultimately, there are people in the u.s. government. and some of these people would rather just look the other way. >> a handful were posted over the weekend canted, unflattering leaders. and then fell candid dust-and the president of i raand and he is also feckless, vain, the middle eastern leaders. >> and also, a naked emperor the president of france. and khaddafi was dependent on his 30 year-old nurse. >> and anybody applauding the release of disinformation is mistaken. >> this disclosure is not just an attack on american foreign policy interest, it is an attack on the international community. >> wikileaks disclosure with world leaders, and into a reporter, kimberly sakamoto? >> catherine, and one of the most interesting that i found on these documents. this first is a cumin trafficking accusation that this came from t

pours in from the embarrassing documents leak by wikileaks. this time the state department is the target. i'll have the latest for you coming up. >>> arson investigators a fire at a burned mosque may be linked to a terrorism suspect. and an apartment fire in san rafael sends a woman to the hospital. >> live look at embarcadero feeling frosty this morning. frost may be thicker than the past couple weeks. more rain in your forecast for the weekend. >>> and frances dinglasan keeping an eye on traffic for you. interstate 80 looking good in berkeley. >>> good morning. 5:00. hope you had a nice thanksgiving day weekend. >> secretary of state hillary clinton will address from central asia the serious blow with other nations in the wake of yesterday's release of a quarter million secret documents by wikileaks. >> when she is doing is damage control. those documents contain candid anecdotes from consulates around the world. cables reveal arab countries fierce about iran's nuclear facility. some urge the u.s. to bomb the facilities. they called the leak

. >>> wikileaks has done it again. they posted hundreds of thousands of classified documents. now, the contents that washington did not want the world to know about it. >> reporter: the new batch of documents from wikileaks despic relationships with governments across the globe. they did not post the documents on its website, they said that they were under cyber attack. one of the more stunning revelations, that iran has obtained powerful missiles from north korea. the white house condemned the release from wikileaks founder, saying endangers dep luments and intelligence agents. >> i hope that those responsibility would think about the responsibility that they have for lives. >> reporter: and the king saudi arabia urged the u.s. to attack iran and hillary clinton instructed people to gather information on diplomats for those overseas. past releases by wikileaks increased sensitive information from the wars in iraq and afghanistan. >> leaking the information is deplorable. >> the u.s. ambassador in britain will not bow to washington's demands. >>> okay. we have a week of dry we

officials seek to control the damage as wikileaks exposes classified diplomatic cables. >> a billion year route bailout for ireland fails to impress global equity markets. >> omar khaddafi demands more assistance from europe at the start of the you africa summit. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> we begin in washington, where u.s. officials are attempting to limit the damage from a massive release of classified diplomatic cables revealed by the whistle- blower in website wikileaks. a short while ago, secretary of state hillary clinton refused to comment on what she called stolen u.s. classified information, but did issue an apology to american partners and allies around the world. >> the united states deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts, or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations. i want to make clear that our official foreign-policy is not set through these messages, but here in washington. >> for more, we asked our washington correspo

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documents by wikileaks. the controversial founder of the website, julian, has been tweeting about this latest release all week as part of fund-raising drive. the coming months will see a new world where global history is redefined. keep us strong. but how did wikileaks get hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of pages of classified u.s. documents? pentagon officials say the prime suspect remains 23-year-old private bradley manning. an army intelligence officer in baghdad who is now in custody in charged with illegally downloading thousands of classified documents, many of which have already been released by wikileaks. pentagon and state department officials have launched a massive damage control campaign, calling all those world leaders that may be maligned in these secret documents. but they say there are so many of them, they may not be able to get to all of them before sunday, brian. >> could be a busy weekend there. jim miklaszewski at the pentagon, thanks. >>> when our friday after thanksgiving broad

wikileaks said it's more than a quarter million documents, none top secret. but all something the u.s. government would rather keep private. >> we live in a world where just a little itty piece of information can add to new information and can really open an ununderstanding that wasn't there before. >> reporter: the there is time gauling, the alpha dog and the emperor with no clothes. and they say an attack would only delay iranian plans by one to two years. and one document said that yemen president said told general petraeus we'll continue to say that the bombs are ours, not you're. >> they need a gut about they're patriotism. >> reporter: many condemn the leaks. wick chi leaks founder says there's more to come despite government protests. >> keep trying to make up -- make it as hard for us as possible to publish responsibly, in the hope that it can get us to not publish anything at all. >> secretary of state hillary clinton is scheduled to make a statement about these leaks later this morning. just before she leaves for a prescheduled tour to central asia

house officials are condemning the release of a quarter million classified cables by the web site wikileaks. the top-secret document dump reportedly exposes years of diplomatic strategy that u.s. officials say could put american lives at risk. nbc's brian mooar joins us from washington with the details. brian, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lynn. the u.s. is facing tough questions about spying on diplomats. and whether legal or not, it's a blow to u.s. credibility. the united states wasn't just spying on top diplomats like u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon, we wanted everything from their dna to frequent flyer numbers. that is just one of untold thousands of revelations in the latest wikileak of more than a quarter million classified u.s. documents, now spreading over the airwaves and in newspapers around the globe. >> you're going to see the actual opinion that our ambassadors, our senior officials have overseas of their counterparts. it's not going to be pretty in many cases. >> reporter: there are intimate revelations by u.s. relations with pakistan and claims saudi king abdul

would not rule out taking action against wikileaks. attorney general eric holder said the administration prosecute vote if violations of federal law are found in an ongoing criminal investigation. reporters asked mr. gibbs about the online publication of thousands of state department e- mails. mails. >> this would have been sometime last week when after we became aware of the upcoming release, the president was briefed in his daily intelligence briefing on the size and scope of the information that was to become public. and the secretary of state in state department at the foreign minister level have been very active in discussions with our allies and our partners around the world. about what is in these documents. i think it is safe to say that i think it is safe to say that the president was not pleased, as an understatement, with this information becoming public. as he saw during the presidential campaign and during his time in the white house, open and transparent government is something the president believes is truly important. b

escritos más famosos del mundio, la organización wikileaks dio a conocer información clasificada de lostados unidos. >> la avanzada de wikileaks fue contundente, ahora 250 mil nuevos documentos llegan a wikileaks. >> la verdad que casi 3 millones y medio de personas de todo el mundo tienen acceso a estos cables. >> era inevitable que esto sucediera, dicen los expertos. >> provoca vergüenza que complia complica las relaciones entre los países, que pone a la luz cosas muy feas, pero eso es muy distinto de decir que es un peligro. >> por quñ entonces la reacción de la secretaria de estado hillary clinton. >> pidió en un cable la información del estado de salud mental de la presidenta de argentina. >> además la presencia de terroristas en brasil, la presencia de los países árabes para tomar acción contra irán. >> cualquier diplomático, cualquier líder político, que acudía a la embajada de estados unidos pensando que la conversación era secreta, descubre que habían personas que tenían acceso a la información. >> la fuente original que es el gobierno americano no cuestiona la autenticidad. >>

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government computer system and passed on to the web site wikileaks.he state department officials have been working round the clock in an attempt to mitigate what we're told is the imminent release of the details. phone calls have been made to state department counterparts in a number of foreign governments. we're told the united kingdom is among them. israel, turkey, russia have been receiving the phone calls. the calculation has been made within the state department that an embarrassing and awkward telephone conversation now might go some way toward staving off a far worse situation if the officials overseas were to read the documents on the wikileaks web site. >> that was ian mackenzie in washington. russian politicians agreed that a declaration that blames joseph stalin for personally ordering the massacre in 1940. thousands of captured polish officers were captured by soviet forces month after the second world war began. until 1990, the soviet union played -- blamed the nazis for the killing. saudi arabia says it has arrested about 150 people susp

the never batch o >> another batch of documents from wikileaks. >> state department cables, now available for anybody to read of the website, wikileaks starling affirmation about information about nuclear programs, beef beyran urging u.s. to take decisive action, and the danger of letting it go on is greater than the danger of stopping it. for the also, directing u.s. diplomats to participate in espionage. monday, secretary of state clinton condemned the leaks and >> there is nothing applaudable about endangering innocent people. >> attorney general, derek eric holder of an active ongoing investigation on this matter we are not in any position to root canal to result of this investigation. >> this is the third time top ouin several months, and in the month of july, several thousand documents and in october, similar leaks of our rociraq documents. they asse us that more documents will still be released. >> they say that the public will still have a right to disinformation. in washington, samantha hayes. >> and today, we passed oulook r viewers. >> countless lives at risk. and meanwhile, th

. >> secretary of state hillary clinton wasted in time lashing out at wikileak.histle blower web site that posted thousands of classified state department document. >> it puts peoples lives in danger. threatens our national security and undermines our effort to work with other countries to solve shared problems. >>reporter: more secret revealed today including discussions regarding guantanamo detainees. saudi arabia king is quoted to say computer chip be implanted in prisoners to be tracked as done with horses and other animals. obama national security official john brennan dismisses the idea saying horses don't have good lawyers. other revelation are more danieling. including details of secret drone attack on suspected al qaeda target in yemen and concerns among arab country over iran nuclear program. person xwleevd to have obtained all the memo then pass them on to wikileak is 22-year-old private first class bradley ma manning. he's already in jail charged with relet's thanksgiving classified video of 2007 helicopter attack in iraq that killed 2 journalist. now

also under fire, wikileaks editor, julian assange.told abc news, he wants to take on the powerful u.s. government. >> i am a combative person. >> reporter: the latest documents reveal communication between the u.s. and south korean officials on what would happen if the north korean regime collapsed. they also express some rather candid comments about u.s. friends and foes. russian prime minister vladimir putin is mocked as the alpha dog. afghan president hamid karzai is described as driven by paranoia. secretary clinton downplayed the damage of such statements. >> i can tell you, in my conversations, at least one of my counterparts said to me, well, don't worry about it. you should see what we say about you. >> reporter: a sign that says more documents will be released over the next several months. it they show the united states turning a blind eye to corruption and spying on its allies. karen travers, abc news, washington. >>> also, reportedly in the ngk a massive release of documents about banks. in a new interview with "forbes," ju

government demands when wikileaks said it experienced a cyber attack. news organizations around the world, including "the new york times" are publishing the leaked diplomatic cables. meanwhile at the state department it's been a long weekend of damage control with secretary of state hillary clinton working the phone lines to warn foreign governments of the potentially damaging and mostly embarrassing documents. we begin tonight at our washington bureau where jim has been pouring through the documents. let's begin with what's in the cables that's most damaging. >> reporter: quite frankly, natal natalie, you can take your pick. there's so much embarrassing information contained in these hundreds of thousands of cables that it seems no one person or issue comes out of this unscathed. some of the america's most confidential communiques are found in thiz diplomatic cables, more than 250,000 obtained by the website wikileaks. 24,000 are marked secret or too sensitive to share with a foreign government. the cables provided in advance to several media outlets t

members pete hookstra will talk about the wikileaks documents. brad sherman will discuss the expiring tax cuts. after that, susan placer of foreign policy magazine on the start treaty, wikileaks, and the most influential thinkers of 2010. this is "washington journal." >> some of÷v the headlines this morning include "obama declared a two-year freeze on federal pay." the deficit, the federal debt, and a federal employee pay freeze. we have a line for independence and those of you thought are federal employees. -- that are federal employees. "the new york times" front-page newspaper "obama demands a two- year freeze on federal pay." sam youngman is the white house correspondents joining us on the phone. thank you for being with us. let's begin first with the meeting that will take place today at the white house. the first with john boehner, senator mcconnell and his counterparts on the democratic side. what is on the agenda with regards to the pay freeze in the debt? >> robert gibbs made it clear that the top priority is talking about the economy an

. >>> and wikileaks is at it again. they have released tens of thousands of state department documents. i will show you what is in them coming up. hey, ellen, what are you doing? just brewing up some dunkin' donuts coffee -- want some? [ whoosh! ] i'd love some. one taste, and you'll understand. delicious dunkin' donuts coffee. pick some up where you buy groceries. america runs on dunkin'. >>> secretary of state hillly clinton -- hillary clinton will be making a statement today. as alison burns reports from our washington, d.c. bureau the administration is calling the release dangerous and reckless. >> reporter: good morning to you. that is right the white house is condemning the document leak by the website wikileaks and facing yemenis pressure to contain -- and facing yemenis pressure to contain the indictments. the they are worried that north korea is supplying iran with advance missiles. the documents also show that the u.s. has tried to coerce countries to take prisons from guantanamo bay. and offering another coun

wikileaks could have blood on their hands. >> reporter: a congressman from new york says wikileaks should be a foreign terrorist and should be tried on that. i will have more during my next update in an hour. for now we are live in washington, d.c. alison burns. >>> this morning secretary of state hillly clinton will make a statement about wikileaks. clinton is heading off today. many of the town avenue countries she is featured in the leaked document. we'll have coverage of secretary state clinton statement. >>> south korea is conducting their secondary of joint military exercises today as tensions with north korea continue to escalate. the president visited a u.s. base in seoul today. the south korean president says he takes responsibility for failing to protect his people. the president says he will respond firmly to any future north korean attacks. >>> the is will vote on the biggest food safety change. will expand the authority of the good and drug administering to regulate farms and food processors. it will reduce it by salmonella and e. e. coli. >>> that's 98% of taxpayers. republi

wikileaks' latest security breach has the u.s. government on worldwide damage control. >> lots of things which were understood in private and may have not been even talked about explicitly suddenly are out there in the cold light of day. >> reporter: the white house sunday condemned the release of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables by the website's founder julian assange, calling it reckless and dangerous. it contains startling revelations from the statement department. among them suspicions iran has obtained powerful missiles from north korea capable of hitting europe and that the saudi king has repeatedly pressured the u.s. to attack iran's nuclear program. >> the fact these governments are exporting an pushing the u.s. government to be more aggressive, to take military action, those revelations will not be popular in the streets of those countries. >> reporter: but the information may prove to be more embarrassing than damaging. the material contains unflattering comments and observations about america's enemies and allies. u.