The US government has previously been a supporter of Mr Mubarak’s regime. But the leaked documents show the extent to which America was offering support to pro-democracy activists in Egypt while publicly praising Mr Mubarak as an important ally in the Middle East.
In a secret diplomatic dispatch, sent on December 30 2008, Margaret Scobey, the US Ambassador to Cairo, recorded that opposition groups had allegedly drawn up secret plans for “regime change” to take place before elections, scheduled for September this year.
Well that's interesting. And from WikiLeaks, too. Given the problems we could have with a free country (or even just a new set of despots), having information out there that we offered support to dissidents could help us in the future.
I'm half seriously starting to wonder if Assange and WikiLeaks aren't an elaborate CIA operation.
