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07-21-2011, 03:10 PM
A local media group, Grupo SIN announced it has received from Julian Assange, free of charge, around 2,000 confidential cables from the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic for reporting back to the US State Department. The documents were originally distributed to the five most influential dailies of the world n New York Times, Le Monde in France, El Pais in Spain, The Guardian in the UK and Der Spiegel in Germany.
Grupo SIN says it is the first TV media outlet in the world to receive the documents directly from the editor of WikiLeaks. The documents will be published through the programs, El Informe (Alicia Ortega), El Despertador and Noticias SIN.
A panel of prominent intellectuals will be responsible for analyzing, classifying and releasing the information. They include Bernardo Vega, a former Dominican ambassador in Washington and a historian and economist who has been reading classified documents of the US Department of State and the Embassy in Santo Domingo for more than 30 years. The other panel members are Rene Fortunato, best known for his historical documentaries, veteran journalists Juan Bolivar Diaz and Miguel Guerrero, and investigative journalists Marino Zapete, Edith Febles and Alicia Ortega.
Fernando Hasbun said that the material was obtained, free of charge, after months of international contacts until the signing of a formal agreement between Assange and Grupo SIN.
"At Grupo SIN, we believe that the release of these documents will contribute to making transparent the political and social doings in our country. The cables contain important revelations on the conduct and public and private activities of government officials, former officials, opposition politicians, judges and legislators," said Hasbun. Nevertheless, he said that if the life of anyone who is mentioned were in danger, their names would not be published.
Hasbun said that not all 2,000 documents would be published, "Because the information they contain is administrative and not relevant." Nonetheless, Hasbun said that all the documents that they do not publish would be published on the WikiLeaks site regardless of how irrelevant they may be.
In a statement, Assange said: "As an Australian from a colonized island I hold deep sympathy with the people of the Dominican Republic in their quest to understand what is happening inside their country and without. Partnering together with us in this mission to understand this important material from the United States Embassy in the Dominican Republic is SIN. I have spoken to some of their first rate investigative journalists and we hope over the coming weeks to bring you deep understanding of events in the past years concerning the Dominican Republic".
On Sunday 28th November 2010, WikiLeaks began publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain. The documents are intended to give people around the world an unprecedented insight into the US Government's foreign activities. http://wikileaks.org/
http://santodomingo.usembassy.gov/pr-101220.html
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#6)
Grupo SIN says it is the first TV media outlet in the world to receive the documents directly from the editor of WikiLeaks. The documents will be published through the programs, El Informe (Alicia Ortega), El Despertador and Noticias SIN.
A panel of prominent intellectuals will be responsible for analyzing, classifying and releasing the information. They include Bernardo Vega, a former Dominican ambassador in Washington and a historian and economist who has been reading classified documents of the US Department of State and the Embassy in Santo Domingo for more than 30 years. The other panel members are Rene Fortunato, best known for his historical documentaries, veteran journalists Juan Bolivar Diaz and Miguel Guerrero, and investigative journalists Marino Zapete, Edith Febles and Alicia Ortega.
Fernando Hasbun said that the material was obtained, free of charge, after months of international contacts until the signing of a formal agreement between Assange and Grupo SIN.
"At Grupo SIN, we believe that the release of these documents will contribute to making transparent the political and social doings in our country. The cables contain important revelations on the conduct and public and private activities of government officials, former officials, opposition politicians, judges and legislators," said Hasbun. Nevertheless, he said that if the life of anyone who is mentioned were in danger, their names would not be published.
Hasbun said that not all 2,000 documents would be published, "Because the information they contain is administrative and not relevant." Nonetheless, Hasbun said that all the documents that they do not publish would be published on the WikiLeaks site regardless of how irrelevant they may be.
In a statement, Assange said: "As an Australian from a colonized island I hold deep sympathy with the people of the Dominican Republic in their quest to understand what is happening inside their country and without. Partnering together with us in this mission to understand this important material from the United States Embassy in the Dominican Republic is SIN. I have spoken to some of their first rate investigative journalists and we hope over the coming weeks to bring you deep understanding of events in the past years concerning the Dominican Republic".
On Sunday 28th November 2010, WikiLeaks began publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain. The documents are intended to give people around the world an unprecedented insight into the US Government's foreign activities. http://wikileaks.org/
http://santodomingo.usembassy.gov/pr-101220.html
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#6)