WikiLeaks cables had a huge impact in Spain, says El Pais editor-in-chief | World news | The Guardian

WikiLeaks cables had a huge impact in Spain, says El Pais editor-in-chief World news The Guardian: "impact within Spain and in Latin America has been huge. This has been especially so in Spain, because of our four-part series on the national court, looking at some high-profile cases in which the US embassy in Madrid has tried to influence judges, the government, and prosecutors in cases involving US citizens. One involved a detainee in Guantánamo, another covered secret rendition flights in Spain, and another was about the murder of a Spanish journalist by US fire in Baghdad.
The last was the most complicated because the cables revealed the double speak of government and prosecutors. Our stories showed that they told US diplomats they would try to hinder or even close down the case while telling the family of the dead journalist that they would do everything they could to advance it. This has been difficult for the Socialist government to explain.
Those to the left of the government in parliament have called for an investigation but I fear that this will be voted down. The conservative opposition has restrained from publicly criticising the government over what has been revealed by WikiLeaks and El País – my guess is they have come under pressure from the US embassy not to make any political capital out of this."

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