Posted on 11/29/2010 6:22:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Wikileaks documents show that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has, as Voltaire said about the Bourbon kings of France, learned nothing and forgotten nothing. Her request that American diplomats at foreign postings and the United Nations gather personal data about their foreign counterparts is eerily reminiscent of her use of private detectives to unearth negative information on those who were politically inconvenient during the husband’s campaigns for president and his White House tenure.
At the time, I called these operatives, the “secret police.” Now, apparently, we call them the “diplomatic corps.”
The Wikileaks documents show that you can not only not teach an old dog new tricks, but you can’t stop her from doing the ones she has always done.
The Wikileaks information indicates that Hillary – and her predecessor Condoleezza Rice – instructed American diplomats to gather information about “office and organizational titles; names, position titles and other information on business cards; numbers of telephones, cell phones, pagers, and faxes,” as well as “internet and intranet ‘handles’; internet e-mail addresses, web site identification-URLs; credit card account numbers; frequent-flier account numbers; work schedules, and other relevant biographical information.”
The New York Times explains that this information could be used to develop intelligence about the activities and whereabouts of foreign diplomatic personnel.
Seems like old times. In the 1992 presidential campaign, the Clintons retained private detectives to learn negative information about the women who were accusing Bill of improper conduct so as to provide blackmail material to cow them into silence. During his White House tenure, FBI files on prominent Republicans somehow ended up on the desk of an operative who was hired pursuant to Hillary’s recommendation after a career as a bar bouncer. Linda Tripp, whose efforts led to the denouement of the president’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, found the details of her personnel file splashed all over the newspapers. A subsequent federal lawsuit found that her file information had been released improperly and a U.S. District Court judge levied a heavy fine on the government for the violation.
The fact that this current State Department covert operation was initiated under Secretary Rice does not lessen Hillary’s guilt for having pursued it. Mrs. Clinton, not Miss Rice, has run for president and is presumed to continue to be interested in the job. Her addiction to spies, dumpster divers, sleuths, and negative research operatives have always been a cause for concern.
The jury has been out on how well Hillary is performing as Secretary of State. I have always been critical of her riding on her husband’s name to achieve fame and power. But when she was appointed Secretary of State, clearly despite her husband rather than because of him, I felt it prudent to withhold judgment. This is, after all, the first real job she has ever gotten on her own.
So far, we don’t see any huge achievements. But we do see some modest ones. She has evidently succeeded in getting Russia to stop its sale of advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, arms which would have made an Israeli strike at Iranian nuclear facilities impossible. She has also done a great deal to strengthen sanctions against the Iranian government to the point where they may really be biting. Bush’s and Rice’s failure to do so was a big black mark against them in their records.
But these Wikileaks make one wonder if she has really learned anything at all. She always goes for the jugular and loves the politics of personal intimidation and destruction. It is because she is so well suited and adept at this form of political combat that she was instrumental in her husband’s success in beating back the impeachment efforts that stemmed from his lies under oath in the Paula Jones litigation about his affair with Monica.
Now she appears to have transformed the diplomatic corps into a spying operation, giving us yet another intelligence gathering agency. But, in doing so, she has undoubtedly alienated our allies and damaged our diplomats’ credibility. Who is going to leave his credit card unguarded after a diplomatic lunch after hearing about the new Hillary spygate?
Maybe it was too much to hope for to have thought that she had grown in office.
And about those FBI files that just happened to be in the White House.
I don’t believe she moved into this arena without direction from her boss.
I never in a million years thought I’d be saying this here in America, but we have a political party and its leaders from POTUS Obama on down to every office holder in the Democrat Party that is just as evil and destructive as the Nazi’s & Communists together. God help us. This Democrat political party needs to be totally destroyed in 2012 from the top down!!! These vile people (Democrats) want to destroy the United States of America and...it starts with America haters Barack Hussein Obama and his evil wife, Michelle!!! And....Hillary Clinton is right in there with all the low life “brown shirt” Democrats!!! America, you better wake up!!!
Never forget that clinton thug Pellicano was found to have explosives in his safe at the time of his arrest, had suggested murder to some of his clients, and was good at getting murders to be ruled as accidents
"Sender said he was told by Pellicano, "If I wanted to I could authorize him to have (Russo) murdered on the way back from Las Vegas, have someone follow him back, drive him off the road and bury his body somewhere in the desert."
She has sold her drunken addiction to sadism as "wisdom" to a LOT of people who are now holding the massive carnage she's left behind for 20+ years.
Lay down with a bloody, lying, self-destructive maniac with a hell-dream of unlimited power...
...get up fast, with fangs snapping at your soul as you run for your life.
Last chance, geniuses. Choose.
I don't know all that the Sec of State ordered (past and present) for information, but what the little toe sucker writes in his artcle does not appear extraordinary to me.
Give it up, Dick. I can’t stand the woman, but she seems to be the only one in this administration doing their job. I applaud her for spying on the UN. At least she is aware that American interests are not the UN’s interests. It would be nice to know that there is a prominent conservative out there who understands this. So far we have Ron Paul, who is borderline crazy and Sarah Palin. The rest of the bunch are one worlders just like the Rats.
Did you hear her official statement? She sounded like she was drugged.
The diplomatic corpse isn’t all that much different from the press corpse. They both serve the interests of Democrats generally and the Clintons particularly.
Wiki Leaks is Obama. This was done to toast Bill and Hillary. She will never run in 2012 now.
It's only precluded domestically.
It should be SOP for the diplomatic corps. Whenever it's not, we have a problem.
RATS AND RINOS MUST BE PURGED!!!!!
YIKES! I just ate dinner!
So you give her mild credit for getting Russia to not sell some missiles.... Something tells me that diplomacy has more to do with “interests” rather than a diplomat’s skill. With the number of czars Obama has appointed, Hillary is not really doing all the work - rather it is the 15,000 authorized Officer’s and Specialists, along with another legion of 60,000 civil servants and Foreign Service Nationals. Please do not give “her” credit for the achievements of these successes - again let me emphasize that “What is in a country’s interest” has more to do with agreements, broken agreements, etc. than this particular person at the head of a agency in which the real diplomatic action comes form Obama’s appointed minons.
So you give her mild credit for getting Russia to not sell some missiles.... Something tells me that diplomacy has more to do with “interests” rather than a diplomat’s skill. With the number of czars Obama has appointed, Hillary is not really doing all the work - rather it is the 15,000 authorized Officer’s and Specialists, along with another legion of 60,000 civil servants and Foreign Service Nationals. Please do not give “her” credit for the achievements of these successes - again let me emphasize that “What is in a country’s interest” has more to do with agreements, broken agreements, etc. than this particular person at the head of a agency in which the real diplomatic action comes form Obama’s appointed minons.
The UN is spy central..ask any FBI/CIA agent and they’ll tell that 3/4 of the people with diplomatic cover as spies...
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