Top 2 of the week: Swiss media with Wikileaks documents
The French-speaking Swiss daily newspaper Le Temps and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung are apparently in possession of all Wikileaks documents relating to Switzerland.
According to their own information, they received a total of 5814 US dispatches from Julian Assange's whistleblowing portal. The documents shed light on Switzerland's relations with the USA and contained assessments of Swiss policy by American diplomats. Most of the documents were sent in the last ten years, writes the NZZ. According to Le Temps, the data set includes all dispatches sent to Washington by the US embassies in Bern and Geneva. It also includes all documents bearing the name Swiss or Switzerland.
Over the next few days, the editorial teams of the two newspapers plan to analyze the data collection and publish the key statements. Links brought to light by Wikileaks, such as those between the UBS agreement with the USA and the admission of Uyghurs from the US torture camp in Guantánamo, Cuba, have already caused a stir in the Federal Council.
