Sunday, December 5, 2010

Clinton tour showed limits of WikiLeaks damage

"A lot of people were reassured," she said, trying to put the best face on an embarrassing situation. "They got their questions answered and joke about it and realize we're going to keep doing business, and nothing was going to slow down our outreach and our diplomacy."

Most of the questions she fielded in public meetings with students and civic leaders had no relation to WikiLeaks.

In Astana, Kazakhstan, she expressed regret, in public and in private, for the leaks. Among the material were confidential reports from U.S. Embassy officials that cast high-level Kazakh government officials in a sometimes unflattering light. Still, there seemed to have been no lasting damage to U.S. relations with a country Washington is working closely with on nuclear issues.

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