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Wow, David Korn is an idiot. It looks like, however, the nutty left is warming up the bus that Clinton is soon going to be thrown under.

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". The first responsibility of this administration, or any administration, is to relentlessly defend the interests of the US. If that means we have to "spy" on foreign diplomats, terrific. The pretense of Korn and other liberals that other countries aren't doing the same exact thing, is ridiculously stupid and dangerously naive.

1 posted on 11/30/2010 9:40:56 AM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand

Yes, David Kornhole is an idiot.


2 posted on 11/30/2010 9:42:47 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Judas Iscariot - the first social justice advocate. John 12:3-6)
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Well, if Hugo Chavez insists ...


3 posted on 11/30/2010 9:43:02 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: OldDeckHand
The pretense of Korn and other liberals that other countries aren't doing the same exact thing, is ridiculously stupid and dangerously naive.

For real. During Glasnost electronic surveillance emanating from the Soviet Embassy in Washington actually increased.

4 posted on 11/30/2010 9:44:26 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter ( I can see 2012 from my cubicle...)
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The fact of the matter is we would be negligent if the State Department WASN'T doing what these cables clearly show them doing

C'mon! Iris scans of diplomats? That's about as silly as it gets and a gigantic waste of tax money. Given Hillary's history, aren't you in the least skeptical of her reasons for spending taxpayers money in this way? Hillary should resign.

5 posted on 11/30/2010 9:44:46 AM PST by Captain Kirk (Q)
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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

C'mon! Iris scans of diplomats? That's about as silly as it gets and a gigantic waste of tax money. Given Hillary's history, aren't you in the least skeptical of her reasons for spending taxpayers money in this way? Hillary should resign.

6 posted on 11/30/2010 9:44:46 AM PST by Captain Kirk (Q)
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The fact of the matter is we would be negligent if the State Department WASN'T doing what these cables clearly show them doing

C'mon! Iris scans of diplomats? That's about as silly as it gets and a gigantic waste of tax money. Given Hillary's history, aren't you in the least skeptical of her reasons for spending taxpayers money in this way? Hillary should resign.

7 posted on 11/30/2010 9:45:02 AM PST by Captain Kirk (Q)
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Well, there goes that 2012 presidential run.


8 posted on 11/30/2010 9:45:57 AM PST by truthkeeper ( God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy.)
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Precisely why the OweBama regime allowed/facillitated the release of the wiki info.

PUMA


9 posted on 11/30/2010 9:46:22 AM PST by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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In the Democrat primaries for 2012, Obama’s only real threat is Hillary Clinton. If Obama’s backers can get her to resign in disgrace, then he is more likely to be unopposed and relatively unbloodied by the time the Republicans straighten themselves out for the general election.


10 posted on 11/30/2010 9:46:45 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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The state department is corrupt - reporting AZ to the UN and speaking publicly in China about AZ human rights concerns.


12 posted on 11/30/2010 9:51:19 AM PST by opentalk
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Hate to say it - but I agree with the libs -

IMHO this whole wikileaks mess is very damaging to US interests - now, and in the future.

Hillary is right in the middle of this and needs to resign. Along with Eric Holder for doing nothing to try and stop it.


13 posted on 11/30/2010 9:53:05 AM PST by VRWCTexan (Those who forget history, are doomed to repeat it !)
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David Korn is helping Obama take Hillary our so she cannot challenge him in the primaries. She is politically dead. The left has now turned on their former darling. That’s the way it is with commies. Trotsky taken out by Lenin. Same thing, different names.


14 posted on 11/30/2010 9:53:20 AM PST by SC_Pete
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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.


17 posted on 11/30/2010 9:55:44 AM PST by stuartcr (When politicians politicize issues, aren't they just doing their job?)
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Obviously Korn is working for Obama here, or thinks he is helping him.

I don’t know, but I would guess that Hillary in her role as Secretary of State was given a pile of routine documents to sign, continuing the policies of her predecessors. Among them was presumably a document saying that diplomats are authorized to get any kind of information they can about foreign politicians.

Presumably this is to protect them for doing their jobs, which is to collect any potentially useful information they can about friends and enemies alike. Most of that information would not be used, but would be filed away in case it might prove useful down the line.

But while not absolutely saying so, the story is written as if Hillary originated the idea and pushed it deliberately. Unlikely, I would say. But calculated to embarrass her with the leaders of other countries and to offend her leftist base.


19 posted on 11/30/2010 10:05:36 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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Hopefully BO’s wikileaks will backfire on him by causing the Clintons to go ahead and release all their files on his BC, foreign citizenships, stolen social security numbers, passports, school records, foreign campaign donations, voter fraud & intimidation, homosexuality etc.


21 posted on 11/30/2010 10:09:54 AM PST by FS11
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I really think some of this State Dept leak was done to take Hilary out of the 2012 election.


30 posted on 11/30/2010 10:45:28 AM PST by martinidon (It's The Spending Stupid)
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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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