Jim Sinclair’s Commentary
This fellow is going to go to jail for life based on a warrant for primary school truancy 40 years ago.
Norwegian Paper Obtains WikiLeaks Cable Haul
By NAT WORDEN
DECEMBER 23, 2010, 6:29 P.M. ET
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–A Norwegian newspaper in possession of WikiLeaks’ entire trove of 250,000 diplomatic cables is scouring the documents for new revelations, one of the reporters assigned to the story said Thursday.
"There are many stories that haven’t been told yet, and we’re looking forward to telling them," said Kristoffer Rønneberg, one of the 20 reporters that Aftenposten, Norway’s largest daily newspaper, has poring over the cables and crafting news stories from that material.
"Our main concern is to bring news to our audience and to the public, and as far as what we choose to report, we will take the same factors under consideration with these cables as we would with any other information we obtain through our reporting," said Mr. Rønneberg, a 32-year-old reporter on Aftenposten’s foreign news desk
He said the cables include large amounts of background on Osama Bin Laden’s activities before the 9/11 attacks, including his dealings with the Taliban in Afghanistan and Sudan.
Mr. Rønneberg said Aftenposten gained access to a smaller number of Norway-related Wikileaks cables two and a half weeks ago through a collaboration with a Swedish newspaper that had some of the cables. About 10 days ago, Aftenposten gained access to the entire trove of cables through other means. He declined to comment further on how the cables were obtained, except to say that the newspaper didn’t pay for them and it has no restrictions imposed on it on how it can use the material.
