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Is this the Keystone Kops presidency? Barack Obama needs to get serious about WikiLeaks (UK Telegraph 12/06/10)
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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100066858/is-this-the-keystone-cops-presidency-barack-obama-needs-to-get-serious-about-wikileaks/

The White House strategy so far has been to largely ignore WikiLeaks, and let Hillary Clinton and the State Department handle the fall-out from the debacle. The president hasn’t even commented publicly on the release of over a quarter of a million US diplomatic cables, despite the immense damage the leak is doing to American diplomacy and US strategic interests on the world stage. He is giving all the appearance of a commander-in-chief who is not in control, with an inept administration that seems to blunder from one crisis to another, at times with no-one at the helm.

That’s surely going to have to change, with WikiLeaks now dramatically upping the stakes with the release of some extremely sensitive documents which will be exploited by terrorist groups across the world, including al-Qaeda. As The Times has just reported:

WikiLeaks raised the stakes tonight in its battle with the United States with the release of a secret list of vaccine suppliers, mineral sources and pieces of infrastructure that Washington believes would harm US security if attacked.

Experts said the cable, published by the whistle-blower website as part of an unauthorised trove of diplomatic correspondence, was a gift for terrorist organisations wanting to harm the United States as it spelt out the pipelines, undersea cables and factories across the world — including a number in Britain — that would cause most damage to US interests if destroyed.

It’s time for the president to start showing some real leadership and responsibility in the face of a major threat to American interests, and treat the Wikileaks issue as a top priority, rather than ignoring it as some kind of annoying sideshow. Barack Obama needs to personally outline to the American people how his administration is going to prevent future leaks, and deliver a pledge to do all he can to hunt down Julian Assange and his accomplices and bring them to justice. The president must let America’s enemies know there are consequences for their actions, and demonstrate that the world’s superpower will act against them, not least as a warning to others who seek to emulate their actions. As Charles Krauthammer put it in a superb piece last week in The Washington Post:

Want to prevent this from happening again? Let the world see a man who can’t sleep in the same bed on consecutive nights, who fears the long arm of American justice… it would be nice if people like Assange were made to worry every time they go out in the rain.

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The "WikiLeaks" was the 3 am call Hillary warned about during the primaries.  It comes as no surprise she is the one that is answering the call.

It is great though to watch how expertly she has handled this....and how the rest of the nation is now seeing how bad they screwed up electing the poster boy of inexperience.

No more "American Idol" presidents America....please!



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