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Phil Goff, the leader of New Zealand’s Labor party lashed out on Thursday at former United States Ambassador Charles Swindells for accusing Wellington of over-reacting to the 2004 arrest of two suspected Mossad agents who had allegedly tried to obtain New Zealand passports fraudulently.
 
In diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks, Swindells said New Zealand’s government had “little to lose” by acting against Israel “and possibly something to gain in the Arab world… actively pursuing trade with Arab states”.
 
Goff said Swindells was appointed ambassador to New Zealand because he was a “Republican Party funder,” adding that the former American envoy did not understand diplomacy, and as a result fed wrong information about New Zealand to his government.
 
Goff said Swindells let his background as a financier influence how he saw foreign affairs.

“It’s the norm for the Americans to appoint ambassadors that aren’t professionals… Charles I think really suffered from a lack of knowledge and a lack of understanding of how countries work and what they do,” he said.

I really do not know where WikiLeaks is going?

Julian Assange is taking it upon himself to be judge, jury and executioner. Remember the old saying about ABSOLUTE POWER and CORRUPTION.

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The CIA and other world wide intelligence services want to stop WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. The leaking of classified American State Department cables has disconcerted many and makes it difficult to conduct frank discussions in the government – a chilling effect in communications.

But, whose fault is it?

If it wasn’t Julian Assange and WikiLeaks would it not be someone else?

Espionage, intelligence and counter-intelligence is a game of sorts and isn’t this revelation just another part? Spies and agents have been stealing cables. secrets, photographs, etc. since early man. Deceit is the game.

And, the trumped up charges against Julian Assange are just ludicrous. A spy novel could not be written anymore cheesy.

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The Lamsesteam media or MSM has NOT covered Obama’s missteps with regards to foreign policy, including Iraq and Afghanistan. Remember how NBC and CBS news were all over President George W. Bush and the daily body counts? Remember all of the fallen soldier’s families being interviewed as their bodies were returned to America?

Now, there are crickets.

What about national security and WikiLeaks.

Is anyone placing blame on the Obama Administration?

Again, crickets – except maybe Newt Gingrich.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday that President Obama and the White House deserve a large share of the blame for the massive amounts of classified information revealed through WikiLeaks.

Gingrich said the leaks are “a scandal of the first order” and that they demonstrate the Obama administration is “shallow” and “amateurish” when it comes to national security.

“You have a private first class who downloads a quarter million documents, and the system doesn’t say, ‘Oh, you may be over extended?’ I mean, this is a system so stupid that it ought to be a scandal of the first order,” Gingrich said. “This administration is so shallow and so amateurish about national security that it is painful and dangerous.”

It is obvious that the Obama Administration is in over their heads – on the order of Jimmy Carter incompetence.

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Sarah Palin has a point.

We all applaud the successful thwarting of the Christmas-Tree Bomber and hope our government continues to do all it can to keep us safe. However, the latest round of publications of leaked classified U.S. documents through the shady organization called Wikileaks raises serious questions about the Obama administration’s incompetent handling of this whole fiasco.

First and foremost, what steps were taken to stop Wikileaks director Julian Assange from distributing this highly sensitive classified material especially after he had already published material not once but twice in the previous months? Assange is not a “journalist,” any more than the “editor” of al Qaeda’s new English-language magazine Inspire is a “journalist.” He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. His past posting of classified documents revealed the identity of more than 100 Afghan sources to the Taliban. Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders?

What if any diplomatic pressure was brought to bear on NATO, EU, and other allies to disrupt Wikileaks’ technical infrastructure? Did we use all the cyber tools at our disposal to permanently dismantle Wikileaks? Were individuals working for Wikileaks on these document leaks investigated? Shouldn’t they at least have had their financial assets frozen just as we do to individuals who provide material support for terrorist organizations?

Most importantly, serious questions must also be asked of the U.S. intelligence system. How was it possible that a 22-year-old Private First Class could get unrestricted access to so much highly sensitive information? And how was it possible that he could copy and distribute these files without anyone noticing that security was compromised?

The White House has now issued orders to federal departments and agencies asking them to take immediate steps to ensure that no more leaks like this happen again. It’s of course important that we do all we can to prevent similar massive document leaks in the future. But why did the White House not publish these orders after the first leak back in July? What explains this strange lack of urgency on their part?

We are at war. American soldiers are in Afghanistan fighting to protect our freedoms. They are serious about keeping America safe. It would be great if they could count on their government being equally serious about that vital task.

- Sarah Palin

But, hasn’t President Obama’s Administration been plagued by incompetence from the beginning?

I won’t say I told you so – but America made a mistake electing a POL who basically voted PRESENT his entire career. No leadership there, folks.

And, now onto the FINALS where President Obama may not win re-election and the Democrats may very well lose control of the U.S. Senate.

President George W. Bush is long gone (in political terms) and there is no one to blame for the current economic malaise and unemployment. With the WikiLeaks revelation, the bloom has come of the Hopey Changey American image foreign policy of Obama as well.

Watch the Dems in the lame duck session of the Congress as they attempt to salvage and pay back some ethnic constituencies that did NOT desert them in November. It will be a pathetic attempt at political maneuvering.

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