(So is Southern Cone Analyst Carlos Osorio!)
I often read the newspapers and smile when I see “…documents obtained by the National Security Archive show…” My smile beamed even larger when I saw “The National Security Archive” mentioned in a classified 2006 wikileaked cable sent to the US Secretary of State and signed by the US Ambassador to Uruguay, Frank E. Baxter.
It beamed larger still when I saw my coworker Carlos Osorio described as “one of the most important declassifiers of the State Department’s private documents.” But then, my smile turned to a frown as I read deeper into the cable, and realized that the US Ambassador considered our work as merely “dredging up the past” and linked my organization to an “assault on US credibility and intentions.” (more…)
