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WikiLeaks Fallout: Should Hillary Clinton Resign?
Politics Daily ^ | 11/30/2010 | David Korn

Posted on 11/30/2010 9:40:51 AM PST by OldDeckHand

Should Hillary Clinton resign as secretary of state due to the WikiLeaks revelations? My friend Jack Shafer at Slate makes a good case. His reason: Clinton, like predecessor Condoleezza Rice, signed orders instructing U.S. foreign service officers to spy on the diplomats of other nations. Cables went out under her name telling State Department officials overseas to collect the fingerprints, facial images, DNA, and iris scans of African leaders, to obtain passwords, credit card numbers, and frequent flyer accounts used by foreign diplomats, and to gather private information on United Nations officials, including Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bhostatedept; clinton; hilary; resignation; soshillary; statedepartment; unfit; wikileaks
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To: ClearCase_guy

Depends onwho you think the enemy is, I guess.


41 posted on 11/30/2010 11:47:36 AM PST by Paperdoll ( On the cutting edge)
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To: OldDeckHand

Clandestine discussions sound sinister to me. If there is something to hide, and those discussions are less than above board and for devious purposes, then perhaps they should be revealed. Anything truly vital to America’s security should be classified, and should not be revealed. I would imagine that the material Corsi has examined covered the earlier, not the latter.
As far as Corsi’s opinion, I heard it from his own lips.


42 posted on 11/30/2010 12:00:37 PM PST by Paperdoll ( On the cutting edge)
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To: Paperdoll
"As far as Corsi’s opinion, I heard it from his own lips."

That doesn't make his opinion right. If I look at two guys - Jerome Corsi and John Bolton - I'm going to have to go with the later, every time. Bolton thinks this is horrible.

43 posted on 11/30/2010 12:11:29 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand

Yes, that it was possible to do is troublesome.


44 posted on 11/30/2010 12:18:46 PM PST by Paperdoll ( On the cutting edge)
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To: OldDeckHand

John Bolton would make a terrific SOS.


45 posted on 11/30/2010 12:23:39 PM PST by Paperdoll ( On the cutting edge)
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To: FS11

The Clinton’s release their files on Nobama.
Nobama releases his files on the Clintons.
That would be a great food fight that I would pay to see.


46 posted on 11/30/2010 12:47:19 PM PST by certrtwngnut
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To: FS11

I don’t understand your response. Obama has been looking like a disgraced, embarrassed politician since the election.

The notion that this is BO’s doing is bizarre. He has absolutely nothing to gain by letting the world know he has no control over the intelligence apparatus, or his own SOS for that matter.


47 posted on 11/30/2010 1:02:36 PM PST by Rutles4Ever (Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna!)
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To: stuartcr
I think they see that Obama could have a fight in 2012 against Hillary, so they trying now to discredit her and get her out of the picture.

Yep, that was my call yesterday. I note with interest that Hillary's name is on some of the released documents (all scrutinized by various media outlets before being released), but nothing directly implicating Nobama. Just saying...

48 posted on 11/30/2010 1:03:35 PM PST by The Citizen Soldier (Obama: All turban, no camels.)
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To: Rutles4Ever

Your allegation that BO had nothing to gain by his WikiLeaks is ridiculous. It should be obvious to you that you are wrong by the majority of the posts on this thread. BO’s aims were to destroy a Clinton challenge in 2012 and his longstanding aim of destroying America.


49 posted on 11/30/2010 1:37:53 PM PST by FS11
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To: Cicero
Unlikely, I would say. But calculated to embarrass her with the leaders of other countries and to offend her leftist base.

Why are leftists offended by efforts to obtain information on foreigners but have no issue with publishing Joe The Plumber's tax and divorce records everywhere?

50 posted on 11/30/2010 1:56:56 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: FS11

Crack meet pipe.


51 posted on 11/30/2010 2:16:44 PM PST by Rutles4Ever (Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna!)
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To: pepsi_junkie
Why are leftists offended by efforts to obtain information on foreigners but have no issue with publishing Joe The Plumber's tax and divorce records everywhere?

I assume that's a rhetorical question.

52 posted on 11/30/2010 2:18:29 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: Cicero

Who better to ask a rhetorical question to than Cicero?


53 posted on 11/30/2010 2:43:39 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Rutles4Ever

“Crack meet pipe.”

U must be confusing me with your boy, BO. U know the homosexual BO who according to Mr. Larry Sinclair likes to get fellatio from older white men while he smokes crack; and the same BO who keeps his male lover, Reggie Love, at the White House; and the same BO who is a lifetime member of the Homosexual Bath House, Man’s Country.


54 posted on 11/30/2010 3:43:09 PM PST by FS11
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To: OldDeckHand
The fact of the matter is we would be negligent if the State Department WASN'T doing what these cables clearly show them doing. To hell with "international law".

Your love of The Beast is well established, so you don't have to belabor it.

But did it ever occur to you that if such spying was necessary, having the Secretary of State explicitly detail it, sign it, and mailbomb it under such low security clearance that a PFC could steal it and upload it to the Net, would establish that SoS as "ridiculously stupid and dangerously naive"?

Despite your naive strutting, international law still has to be respected in many ways - epsecially by the SoS. Hillary's signature on this order just reiterates the belligerent screwup she's always been, and always will be.

55 posted on 11/30/2010 4:22:03 PM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
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To: toddausauras
...the challenger would be painted as a right wing nazi like Hillary was in the leftosphere...

"right wing nazi"?

56 posted on 11/30/2010 4:28:36 PM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
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To: Talisker
"having the Secretary of State explicitly detail it, sign it, and mailbomb it under such low security clearance that a PFC could steal it and upload it to the Net, would establish that SoS as "ridiculously stupid and dangerously naive"? "

Really, you should just keep your mouth shut. Every time I read one of your posts, you more completely confirm my suspicions of you.

Do yourself a favor, and google SIPRnet. After that, take this week's paycheck and buy yourself a clue, sport.

57 posted on 11/30/2010 4:31:39 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: Beatthedrum
This is nothing compared to the shameless scandals that have littered her past.

So true. Good post.

58 posted on 11/30/2010 4:32:06 PM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
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To: OldDeckHand
Really, you should just keep your mouth shut. Every time I read one of your posts, you more completely confirm my suspicions of you. Do yourself a favor, and google SIPRnet. After that, take this week's paycheck and buy yourself a clue, sport.

Suspicions? LOL. I have no suspicions about you - your posts make you perfectly clear.

The cables were classified SECRET/NOFORN, and both the SIPR and NIPR nets STILL allow machines with flashdrive ports and CD-ROM burners. The use of such low security for such politically damaging information was either rank incompetence, or more Clinton treason.

Which utterly damning, ever-repeated Hillary screwup explanation do YOU prefer, sport?

59 posted on 11/30/2010 4:43:33 PM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
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To: Talisker

Yep, you’re a genius. Keep telling yourself that, champ. Positive reinforcement is important for the feebly minded.


60 posted on 11/30/2010 4:49:20 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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