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ICYMI: Britain's diplomatic leak shows honesty and international relations don't mix

RT
Fri, 12 Jul 2019 11:31 UTC

Britain's former ambassador to Washington is looking for work, after an unfortunate leak made his honest opinions about the US president public.

Sir Kim Darroch described Donald Trump and his administration as, among other things, inept and clumsy. The public disclosure left it extremely hard to do his job of buttering up Trump and pretending the special relationship between the US and the UK is a real thing.

ICYMI concludes that truth and honesty have no place in global politics.

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Comment: As noted in Our man in America: UK ambassador Darroch's secret cables to Downing Street the incident was likely a hit job, and the only real problem was that these comments were made public:

The leaking of the diplomatic cables was "a political hit job" on the British envoy Kim Darroch, financier and former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci told RT's Afshin Rattansi on his show, Going Underground.
The transition is going to happen in the UK government, and somebody wanted to embarrass him and knock him out of that post.
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As damaging as the leaks may be to relations between Britain and the US, professional diplomats are expected to stay blunt and not mince words in their internal correspondence, Scaramucci noted.
This was an embarrassment. [But] ambassadors all over the world [operate in a way that] if they got their internal confidential assessment memos leaked, there would be a lot of embarrassing conversations. It's not a big deal.