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Clinton Condemns Diplomatic Leaks
 New York Times
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December 01, 2010
Washington – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this week condemned the disclosure of thousands of confidential diplomatic cables, leaked by WikiLeaks, an organization dedicated to exposing secret documents, saying that it was an attack not only on American foreign policy interests but on the international community.
But Mrs. Clinton said she was confident, based on conversations in recent days with foreign ministers of several countries, that the administration’s relationships with other governments would survive any upheaval.
“The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of these classified documents,” she said at a news conference. “It puts people’s lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve problems.”
Mrs. Clinton expressed regret over disclosures in the cables that might embarrass or anger officials in other countries.
Immediately after the news conference, she left for a trip to Central Asia and the Persian Gulf.
While declining to comment on the details of the cables, Mrs. Clinton said the disclosures painted a picture of American diplomats doing their jobs: collecting information and impressions and communicating them in an unvarnished way to policy-makers in Washington.
Mrs. Clinton left directly from her news conference on a trip that will give her a first-hand flavor of the foreign reaction to the disclosures in the cables. On her first stop in Kazakhstan, at a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, she will encounter European allies.
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