Tag: Philip Crowley

• Tuesday, March 15th 2011 - 09:35 UTC

  US State Department spokesman resigns on Wikileaks controversy

  

  US State Department spokesman PJ Crowley resigned after reports that he labelled as “stupid” and “ridiculous” the Pentagon's treatment of a US soldier accused of leaking secret documents that appeared on the WikiLeaks website.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2011 - 20:45 UTC

  US State Department will no longer comment Wikileaks cables

  

  While offering a press conference in Washington DC, US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Philip Crowley refused to comment on the recently released Wikileaks cables that mention Argentina and said his government would refrain from doing so in the future.

• Thursday, February 24th 2011 - 07:31 UTC

  US/Argentina incident stalled: “we are waiting for a satisfactory response”

  

  After the US Department of State official Philip Crowley tweeted that his country “wanted his (seized) stuff back,” the Argentine Foreign Ministry issued Wednesday a press statement in which it assured that it still awaits “a satisfactory response” to the formal complaint sent to the US embassy.

• Thursday, February 17th 2011 - 02:45 UTC

  Seized cargo incident: US government “has no reason to apologize” to Argentina

  

  US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Philip Crowley assured that the US government “has no reason to apologize” to Argentina in the case of the “sensitive materials” that were seized in a US Air Force plane by the local government last week, amid accusations of “attempting to smuggle surveillance and communications equipment.”