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http://thechronicleherald.ca/World/9018868.html

The White House is all but scoffing at suggestions U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should resign in the wake of the latest WikiLeaks crisis, with President Barack Obama again signalling his strong support of the woman who was once his fiercest political foe.

Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary, branded WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s call for Clinton’s resignation as “ridiculous and absurd,” adding Obama is pleased with Clinton’s work.

“The president has great confidence in and admires the work that Secretary Clinton has done to further our interests in the world,” he told CNN on Wednesday.

And who else will answer those 3AM phone calls?

One longtime diplomat in D.C. said there’s nothing surprising about Clinton’s directive and the fact that United Nations officials were among those being watched. Clinton’s predecessor, Condoleezza Rice, issued a similar order.

“It’s something most governments do, because the UN is famously crawling with spies,” the diplomat said.

Stephen Hess, a longtime Washington-based politico who has spent years examining how governments deal with leaks, agreed.

“This is diplomacy at work; this is how people operate in diplomatic circles, and to pretend otherwise is naive,” said Hess, now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution after a political career spent working for presidents, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon among them.

The most striking thing about this week’s crisis, Hess added, is not the often gossipy details disclosed in the diplomatic cables. Rather, he said, it’s how Clinton has once again proven herself to be an astute secretary of state.

“She said something on Monday that should go down in the anthology of the best things ever said by U.S. secretaries of state, and that was when she recounted how she’d spoken to her foreign counterparts and one of them had told her: ‘Don’t worry about it, you should see what we say about you,”’ Hess said with a laugh.

With that one quip, Hess said, Clinton masterfully put the crisis in perspective and did it with self-deprecating humour.

“She’s done everything perfectly this week, and with that one line, she crystallized the issue _ this is what governments do and diplomats do, all over the world, not just in the United States,” he said.

Clinton also reassured America’s allies that the WikiLeaks release will not complicate U.S. diplomacy efforts, but added she’s open to addressing any concerns.

“I anticipate that there will be a lot of questions that people have every right and reason to ask, and we stand ready to discuss them at any time with our counterparts around the world,” she said.

Hess called it vintage Clinton: out on the front lines and handling the crisis with typical poise. It’s a skill that was perhaps well-honed after eight years dealing with the seamier scandals that engulfed the presidency of her husband, former president Bill Clinton.

“She is a woman of great energy and certainly a very smart person, and let’s face it, she dealt with a lot as first lady,” Hess said.

“And right out of the White House, you look at how she responded to being a senator for New York _ she wasn’t a show horse, she was a workhorse, and that wasn’t expected of her. She’s poured the same energy into her job as secretary of state. She has easily been one of Obama’s most brilliant appointments, and calls for her resignation are just silly.”

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That is another thing that really irks me by the media...how they have all glossed over that Rice did the same thing.  I am not saying Rice was wrong for it.  I actually admire her work ethic also. 

I am really starting to think the media thinks this is their means of putting the nail in the coffin for any future POTUS run by Hillary.

But the truth is, We the People are really seeing who in this adminstration is the real leader.

You go with your bad self, Madam Secretary.  We have your back.





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Good article.  I notice that its from the Canadian press but at least someone in the press appreciates Hillary.

I'm still steamed by those who are trying to use WikiLeaks to take Hillary down. Yesterday we had Time magazine's nominee for "person of the year", Julian ASSange, Jack Shafer, and David Corn all chime in to push the idea of Hillary's resignation.  These are just the ones I ran across, I'm sure there are others who are part of this ASS press squad.  



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