Document leak an 'attack on America,' Clinton says

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Document leak an 'attack on America,' Clinton says

 

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the release of 250,000 secret documents to the Internet represents an attack on America and its allies.

But does it when the US government has doing all kind of things to keep the war on freedom going. 

 

 

Speaking in Washington, Clinton said the U.S. "strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information," saying the act puts lives in danger, threatens national security and undermines diplomacy. "Let's be clear, this disclosure is not just an attack on America's foreign policy interest, it is an attack on the international community, the alliances and partnerships, the conversations and negotiations that safeguard global security and advance economic prosperity," Clinton said.

 

 

 

WikiLeaks, contending that the digital distribution of documents holds governments accountable.

The massive document dump – more than 250,000 U.S diplomatic cables made public Sunday by WikiLeaks – sent shock waves around the globe as the Obama administration had to coped with the fallout of revelations ranging from stunning to salacious as its policies and methods of dealing with friends and foes were embarrassingly laid bare.

And now damage control is being played out by Hillery Clinton, that shows how the US has caused more problems in the world, then any other country has, including putting forth a police state that is being played out in the US from the TSA molestings, to bio-research to be moved near the cattle food chain.

 

The White House has been scrambling to contain the potential diplomatic disaster spurred by the release of the classified U.S. State Department documents, ordering U.S. agencies to review their safeguards on classified information.

The trove reveals candid assessments of foreign leaders, secret details of the global anti-terrorist campaign and embarrassing details of American diplomats gathering sordid details of the sex lives of foreign leaders.

 

On Monday, U.S. President Barack Obama's administration ordered a government-wide review of how agencies secure sensitive information. Announcing the assessment, the director of the White House's Office of Management and Budget, Jacob Lew, said that the disclosures are unacceptable and will not be tolerated.

 

Clinton said the documents don't expose any wrongdoing on the part of the US government, and serve no public purpose.

 

What Clinton doesn't want the public to know is how she embraced and ordered Secret spy missions on the UN:

Clinton said "There have been examples in history in which official conduct has been made public in the name of exposing wrongdoing or misdeeds,".

 

Does that mean Hilly Clinton will come clean on the Spy missions. Somehow I don't it it would have come to light.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton show her misdeed, apparently orderng a covert spying campaign – blurring the role of diplomats – against UN leaders including Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Clinton ordered diplomats to spy on UN leaders, including Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon Work schedules, email addresses, fax numbers, website identifiers and mobile numbers were also demanded by Washington.

 

The U.S. also wanted ‘biographic and biometric information on UN Security Council permanent representatives’.

The request could break international law and threatens to derail any trust between the U.S. and other powerful nations. Requests for IT related information – such as details of passwords, personal encryption keys and network upgrades - could also raise suspicions that the U.S. was preparing to mount a hacking operation.

 

It is set to lead to international calls for Mrs. Clinton to resign.

 

The fishing expedition was ordered by Mrs. Clinton in July 2009, but followed similar demands made by her predecessor, Condoleeza Rice. Mrs. Clinton called for biometric details ‘on key UN officials, to include undersecretaries, heads of specialised agencies and their chief advisers, top SYG [secretary general] aides, heads of peace operations and political field missions, including force commanders’.

 

Mrs. Clinton's orders followed on from those given by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, shown here with former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Rome in 2006. She also wanted intelligence on Ban Ki-Moon’s ‘management and decision-making style and his influence on the secretariat’.

 

Cables were sent to U.S. embassies in the UN, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Latin America. America has always handed over information about top foreign officials to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). But the request by Mrs Clinton paves the way for officials to be more closely spied upon, with even their travel plans tracked by U.S. diplomats.

 

In what could discredit the U.S. role in the Middle East peace process, missions in Israel, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt were asked to gather biometric information ‘on key Palestinian Authority and Hamas leaders and representatives, to include the young guard inside Gaza, the West Bank’. Details of the US spying mission were sent to the CIA, the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI under the heading ‘collection requirements and tasking’.

 

International treaties ban spying at the UN. The 1946 UN convention on privileges and immunities states: ‘The premises of the United Nations shall be inviolable. The property and assets of the United Nations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, requisition, confiscation, expropriation and any other form of interference, whether by executive, administrative, judicial or legislative action.’

So before Clinton crys fowl about Wikileaks, she should be looking in the mirror, to see that her phony chicken little stories being played out by her in the media don't wash and add up to zero...

 

Among other revelations in the secret diplomatic messages: America’s close Arab allies have urged it to strike Iran – by bombing nuclear sites and decapitating the ruling Islamic theocracy; cyberwarriors from China’s communist politburo have attacked U.S. government computer networks.

 

“Cut off the head of the snake," King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia said, referring to Tehran, a call to arms he has repeatedly made to both the Bush and Obama administrations. It was a bellicose call, one echoed by Egyptian and other Arab leaders who regard the rising Iranian power across the gulf as an ``existential threat.”

 

Also revealed: North Korea has provided Iran with ex-Soviet missiles capable of lofting nuclear-warheads thousands of kilometres; Yemen has promised to cover for U.S. missile strikes on its territory by claiming they are its own bombing missions.

"We'll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours," Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh is reported to have said.

 

"This is not one of those cases. In contrast what is being put on display in this cache of documents is that American diplomats are doing the work we expect them to do." said Clinton.

Instead, juicy details of U.S. diplomats being ordered to gather dirt on foreign potentates as well as their candid and unflattering observations are being laid bare. After a week of pre-emptive damage control, during which U.S. ambassadors

 

Arab fears of Iran’s growing power have long been known. However, that prominent moderate Arab leaders were pressing Washington to launch major military strikes was not.

 

WikiLeaks posted the documents on its website on Sunday, just hours after it claimed a cyber attack had rendered the site inaccessible for much of the day. The documents were nevertheless published on schedule, as they had been given in advance to The New York Times, Le Monde, the Guardian, Der Spiegel and others. While they do not appear to reveal security secrets, they undoubtedly expose the rough underbelly of otherwise genteel diplomacy.

 

Similarly, U.S. effort to get countries to take Guantanamo’s detainees was publicly evident. What the documents reveal is an almost sordid set of payoffs. For instance, Slovenia’s president was promised a face-to-face

meeting with the internationally popular Mr. Obama if the country would take detainees.

 

Among the juicy – if hardly surprising – details are diplomatic messages that report on unspecified “inappropriate behaviour” by a member of the British Royal Family; a reference to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as ``an alpha dog” and suggestions that Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai is “driven by paranoia.”

 

Other messages compared Iran’s controversial and unpredictable President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Hitler and suggest that Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi likes the company of his buxom Ukrainian nurse.There are also blunt – and harshly critical – assessments of some of America’s fighting allies in Afghanistan, notably the British forces who were heavily engaged in Helmand province until Mr. Obama sent tens of thousands of U.S. troops to southern Afghanistan.

 

Another previously undisclosed U.S. effort – now apparently stalled – was an attempt to extract weapons-grade uranium from Pakistan. Less surprising are diplomatic cables that report Saudis remain among the primary supporters of Islamic jihadist groups, including al-Qaeda.

 

So no matter how Hilly Clinton wants to play out the wikileaks in the mainstream media for damage control, it is time the US government is accountable for it's actions in the world, that have only lead the US government to force people to give up their god given freedoms and rights for fake surcurity, for the fake war on freedom.

 

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is also expected to address the diplomatic repercussions later Monday, just as she is set to embark on a four-nation tour of Central Asia and the Middle East.

 

Clinton's first stop in damage control will be Astana, Kazakhstan, will feature a summit of officials from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a diplomatic grouping that includes many officials from countries cited in the leaked cables.

 

As warned host governments that the flood of messages could be embarrassing, the first portions that were publicly online on Sunday were almost anti-climatic.