The State Department, via spokesman P.J. Crowley, promised updates over the weekend as stories were expected to develop. No updates have been forthcoming from State, but foreign ministries (presumably not in national turkey comas) have provided some insights into the kind of Thanksgiving weekend our lovely and hard-working Mme. Secretary is having.
South Korea says joint military drill to send message
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s foreign ministry said on Thursday a joint military exercise with the United States due later this month will send a clear message to North Korea.“Over telephone talks with Secretary (of State) Hillary Clinton, we agreed that through the drill, we will be able to …send a clear message to the North in relation to the recent situation,” a foreign ministry spokesman said.
South Korean, US and Japanese foreign ministers to meet
The Japanese and US top diplomats agreed Thursday to set up a meeting with their South Korean counterpart to coordinate their policies towards North Korea, news reports said. Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed to arrange the meeting for December in Washington, Japan’s Kyodo News reported. During their 15-minute phone conversation, Maehara and Clinton confirmed the need to enhance their cooperation in the wake of North Korea’s attack on a South Korean island Tuesday, and its uranium enrichment programme, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said.
China holds talks with Clinton on N.Korea: foreign ministry
BEIJING (AFP) – Beijing held phone talks with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday on the tense situation following North Korea’s deadly bombardment of a South Korean island, the Chinese foreign ministry said.
Under the surface there is an unrelated story that was probably the one Crowley was expecting to break over the weekend when he spoke to the press on Wednesday. My opinion is that these leaks are dangerous, violate national and international security, and should be stopped. Assange should be in prison for doing this. These are not old, expired communications. They are recent, sensitive, and protected. His actions are criminal. Your freedom of speech ends where it endangers the safety of others. Wikileaks is dangerous.
US rushes to contain new WikiLeaks damage
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States raced Friday to contain the fallout from the looming release of millions of sensitive diplomatic cables by the WikiLeaks, warning governments around the world of embarrassing disclosures.
US diplomats headed to foreign ministries in hopes of staving off anger if the whistleblower website puts out the leaked cables, which are internal messages that lack the niceties that diplomats generally voice in public.
The documents, the third tranche since WikiLeaks published 77,000 classified US files on the Afghan conflict in July, could affect some of the most sensitive US relationships including with Russia, Israel and Turkey.
So it appears that Mme. Secretary’s holiday weekend is not free of work or concerns. She is spending portions of it on the phone, but we hope that she is making the calls from the comfort of home and otherwise enjoying some downtime with her family.
I’m still waiting to see what happens next with wikileaks before coming to conclusions, but that is a fun slideshow theme! Here’s another one of Hillary calling, via my contact page. S4H, maybe you could embed the image here if you get the chance.
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Oh how cute! Also snatched it! 🙂
Well, some of these wikileaks releases have been pretty dangerous stuff. These particular ones might amount to be more embarrassing than anything else, but we do not need to have added challenges to diplomacy, especially with purportedly Turkey and Russia involved.
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I feel bad for the poor soul who said any embarrassing things about Israel. I’m sure their letter of resignation is in the mail already.
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The were just saying on the news that this document dump is so huge that they won’t know what is in it for awhile. Probably worse than knowing your cable is in it is the suspense of wondering whether/when it will show up.
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I hope she and the UN Special Envoy to Haiti kept their sweet nothings on their BlackBerrys. 😉
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Whew! *fans self*
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I don’t think we need to read those.
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NO! Top Secret!!!
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haha OMG can you imagine?!?!
that would be hilarious/mortifying for them
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I CAN imagine!
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They’d laugh it off. Maybe they’d loosen up a little in public.
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I don’t think she’d be near so imposing a figure if we knew what Bill’s pet name for her is.
It would be amusing but might make me a little nausious.
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We have reason to think it might be Madame Secretary. (Subject to change.)
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*Gasp!* Change. To what? If she takes Gates’ place, shes’s still “Madame Secretary”, and “Madame Vice President” just isn’t that sexy.
I think you have a different version of “Hope and Change” going.
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You know, as Jack said: Nothing sexier than a woman you have to salute in the morning.
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I could be wrong, but I think there is only one civilian position that gets saluted.
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You know, I am not really sure about this since the troops regularly salute her as SOS .. when she is boarding her plane and when her plane taxis and takes off. I have pictures of that. But a former POTUS does not salute a current SOS I don’t think.
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He might already have changed it, if he knows a “State Secret” we don’t. Now that would be embarassing for her.
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Meant to say up there that officers also salute her and her plane- guys with many stars on their shoulders and scrambled eggs on their visors!
From what I am reading, she has certain people on the edges of their chairs while she goes about her business with huge cheerful smiles, and he is plain talking in some very deep-pocket influential circles. I had already been hearing this for months from state parties.
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Does Bill speak plainly to anyone who isn’t influential and well off? And hasn’t watching Hillary Clinton move been the Democratic party’s guilty pleasure for a while now? They love watching her doing the diplomacy dance, but no one will ever admit it. 😉
We’ll see what the future brings. This counrty has it bad for incumbants, but these are unusual times.
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Well he is known to get involved in conversations with the less influential and wealthy.
Yes, Hillary-watching is most entertaining. She’s keeping them guessing.
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It’s a Republican guilty pleasure too. Senator Lugar could watch her work all day.
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So could Lindsay Graham. I’m sure there are others – some won’t admit it.
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On the Democrat side, Evan Bayh and John Kerry are less than discreet. Hey look, bipartisanship!
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Yes, and Chris Dodd finds her visits … um… exciting, too, it seems.
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i think biden has a little bit of a thing for her
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Bill and Hill documentary!!
if anyone lives in France, could you please tape and post it on youtube! airs December 8th
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Oh wow! I wish we could see this!
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me too! are there any people from France that read this blog?
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Je suis abonné à cette chaîne et bien sûr je serai devant le poste de TV pour regarder “L’amour au pouvoir”. Je suis très impatient.
“Le drame vécu par un couple public dont on doit célébrer la cohésion en dépit des différences d’opinion et de la pression usante des scandales à répétition. Il aborde la question du mariage sous l’aspect politique dans une période de transition entre l’époque où les femmes américaines ne pouvaient accomplir de grandes choses qu’en se dévouant corps et âme à leurs époux et le moment où les Américains sont peut-être enfin prêts à donner les Super Pouvoirs à une femme.”
Je ne suis pas sûr d’être capable de l’enregistrer et de le poster!
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(Translated by Google)
I subscribe to this channel and of course I’ll be in front of the TV to watch “L’amour au pouvoir.” I’m very impatient.
“The drama of a couple groups that must celebrate cohesion despite differences of opinion and pressure of debilitating scandals. It addresses the issue of marriage in the politics in a transition period between the time the American women could accomplish great things in devoting themselves body and soul to their husbands and when the Americans may finally be ready to give the Super Powers to a woman.”
I am not sure of being able to record and post it!
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I think that requires special equipment and software.
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well, maybe you can just tell us what happens
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I am thinking that maybe the TV channel will eventually post it. It wouldn’t have subtitles, but I can understand French and EVERYBODY understands Bill and Hillary pics and videos. Everybody here, anyway.
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thats the only reason i want to see it. i love old footage of the two of them
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Well, I hope we can find it.
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I already have a video about the Clinton couple (92 minutes – 2008) from the French TV, but the file is very, very large.
So I’ll look for a place to host it.
I prefer not to post links directly on the blogs (Post these videos may not be very legal!)
If you are interested, send me a request to: my nickname (with a “_” between the two words) at hotmail.com
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i’m interested!
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Send me an email at hillary_lover (at) hotmail.com
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