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Clinton: WikiLeaks cables show diplomacy at work (CNN 12/04/10)
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/12/04/wikileaks.clinton/
The confidential U.S. embassy cables posted online by the website WikiLeaks simply show "diplomats doing the work of diplomacy," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday.

Clinton said she was not making light of the leaked documents, which reveal secret communications from U.S. diplomats around the world and have caused embarrassment for the United States and others.

"Everybody is concerned," she told reporters aboard her plane as it departed Bahrain, where she spoke at a conference. "Everybody has a right to have us talk to them, and have any questions that they have answered, but at the end of the day -- as a couple of analysts and writers are now writing -- what you see are diplomats doing the work of diplomacy."

"But I haven't seen everybody in the world, and apparently there's 252,000 of these things out there in cyberspace somewhere," she said of the documents, "so I think I'll have some outreach to continue doing over the next weeks just to make sure as things become public, if they raise concerns, I will be prepared to reach out and talk to my counterparts or heads of state of government."

Asked whether President Obama has had to call any heads of state, Clinton said she wasn't sure, though he had made recommendations for calls and would raise the issue as he speaks to counterparts on other matters.

"In a way, it should be reassuring, despite the occasional tidbit that is pulled out and unfortunately blown up," Clinton said. "The work of diplomacy is on display, and you know, it was not our intention for it to be released this way -- usually it takes years before such matters are. But I think there's a lot to be said about what it shows about the foreign policy of the United States."



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