US envoys were bullies: Clark (Former PM NZ) - NZ Herald/Wikileaks

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

This is following up on another post concerning Michael Moore's reaction to the story. I suppose the apologists for State Department will aver that the NZ PM is an attention whore.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10696346

Former Prime Minister Helen Clark says concerns by the US Embassy over the screening of Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 for a Wellington Central Labour Party fundraising event showed "outright bullying" and "unprofessional" conduct by officials.

And former Defence Force chief Sir Bruce Ferguson says the embassy staff member who linked New Zealand's humanitarian mission to Iraq to deals for Fonterra in one of his diplomatic cables must have been "smoking dope".

The cables are among the 1500 from New Zealand which have been part of 250,000 US diplomatic cables from around the globe leaked by WikiLeaks.

One cable shows that former deputy chief of mission David Burnett was concerned enough about the fundraiser in July 2004 to call Helen Clark's office.

[EFerrari]

1. Our State Department? I thought they are all white gloved greeters!

Surely this can't be true!

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Perhaps the true motive can be found in this line:

"Mr Burnett suggests in his cable to Washington that a "potential fiasco" may have been averted because of his phone calls."

I am still figuring out what fiasco was diverted, but sure glad he gets credit for it.

Wonder where the little sycophant is these days?