John Bolton is not the first person to question the authenticity of the WikiLeaks dump of American diplomatic cables. He is however, someone with tremendous knowledge and a lack of motive for helping the Obama administration.
Bolton was George W. Bush’s ambassador to the United Nations. Democrats tried hard to prevent Bolton from ever taking up his duties so he owes his old opponents no favours. Yet he is either doing one for Hillary Clinton at State or Barrack Obama at the White House…..or Bolton is on to something.
In an analysis of what the release of the cables means to American diplomacy, Bolton raises questions about whether they are real.
Whether and to what extent some released cables are deliberate frauds or mistakes is also unclear, and will require further analysis. At a minimum, some are not what they appear to be. For example, some of the cables seem at first glance to call for State Department personnel to engage in intelligence activities. One, from July, 2009, appears to direct personnel at USUN to spy on the UN Secretariat to obtain biographical and personal information such as computer passwords and frequent flyer numbers. Similar cables were purportedly sent to U.S. embassies overseas.
I can safely say in all of my years at State and USAID, I have never seen a State cable like the one purportedly sent to USUN. Even the sequential numbering on the cable, published by The Guardian, seems out of sync with the cable’s date, which itself is a red flag. I cannot explain the provenance of this particular document, but there is little doubt that Typhoid Mary would now receive a better reception in many countries than Department officers who will now be treated as though they were filching documents from copy machines. Silly as it sounds, this is the kind of cancerous breach of faith that WikiLeaks has intentionally caused.
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via Wik-ed – HUMAN EVENTS.
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