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The cable goes on to quote this person as saying that the hacking of Google “had been coordinated out of the State Council Information Office with the oversight
by DanielBMarkham 16y ago
The cable goes on to quote this person as saying that the hacking of Google “had been coordinated out of the State Council Information Office with the oversight” of Mr. Li and another Politburo member, Zhou Yongkang.” Mr. Zhou is China’s top security official....But the person cited in the cable said he did not make that claim, and also doubted that Mr. Li directed a hacking attack...
You can rest assured he also will never be making any further claims or providing further sensitive information to American diplomats. Not after this.
I don't mean that as a good-bad thing. It simply is a statement of how things are -- and how they have changed. Draw your own conclusions.
- joe_the_user 16y agoOh really? Whoever-it-was who leaked this ipso facto already knew that the Chinese were in the process of bugging the Americans. Why would this person expect that the information they were giving the Americas would remain secret?? Think about it for a minute. Sheesh. Edit: Rebutals?
- rgrieselhuber 16y agoI also found it interesting that the NYT didn't mention his name. If it's listed in the cables, the fact that they left it out would be a rather clear indication of policy. Makes me wish once again that newspapers were required to provide detailed bibliographies for their stories somewhere.
- klbarry 16y agoWere they ever really required to do that? That would be amazing.