Judge rejects govt claim that Manning leaks had ‘chilling effect’ on foreign relations

Leaked conversations, which were subsequently published, included US State  Department employees bluntly discussing world leaders – some of whom already had  fractured relationships with the US government.

In one leaked cable, diplomatic officials were heard speaking about  then-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi being accompanied by a “senior Ukranian  nurse” described as a “voluptuous blonde” during his 2009 trip to New  York for a United Nations session, The New York Times reported. During the same  visit, Gaddafi was forbidden from visiting Ground Zero – the site where the  World Trade Center was brought down in a terrorist attack on September 11,  2001.

In another cable, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was described as  having a “thin-skinned and authoritarian personal style” after State  Department employees witnessed him berating other French officials. Another  cable said that Sarkozy was “a naked emperor.”

A 2008 dispatch from the US embassy in Moscow described then-Russian  President Dmitry Medvedev as “afraid” and “hesitant” compared to Prime  Minister Vladimir Putin’s “alpha dog” persona. Other communication remarked that  Medvedev “plays Robin to Putin’s Batman.”

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