White House: Clinton didn't order diplomats to spy

[The Straight Story]

White House: Clinton didn't order diplomats to spy

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's spokesman is labeling as "ridiculous" an assertion by the founder of WikiLeaks that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton should resign if she was involved in asking U.S. diplomats to gather intelligence at the United Nations.

And Sen. Joe Lieberman said the website should be shut down and founder Julian Assange arrested.

In an online interview with Time magazine from an undisclosed location, Assange on Tuesday called on Clinton to resign "if it can be shown that she was responsible for ordering U.S. diplomatic figures to engage in espionage in the United Nations" in violation of international agreements.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday that Assange's statements "are both ridiculous and absurd." Clinton, he said, has done nothing wrong, and U.S. diplomats do not engage in spying. He spoke in an interview on NBC's "Today" show.

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[seafan]

1. Methinks they do protest too much.

The White House is shouting that we've got this all wrong.


It's just.... absurd.


Either she ordered, or was just following orders. Neither one is acceptable.

[bbgrunt]

2. sure, whatever you say, Mr. Gibbs and Sec Clinton.

[Autumn]

3. Then who did?

If they are being spied on, the order came from someone.:shrug:

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. The Watergate Plumbers

after all they were just a rouge group that Nixon. said was.......... Oh, nevermind.