"Shouldn't diplomatic staff be able to send back accurate assessments of political figures in countries where the US has interests? If internal comms are sanitised for potential public exposure, who benefits?"
I can't help but think how nice it'd be if all the taxpayer funded diplomats could hold their heads high and say "Yes, what Wikileaks just published was my professional communication as a trained diplomat. the opinions expressed were my opinions and I stand behind them."
There are times when I may have turned to a coworker and said "this client is STUPID!", but in any written correspondence that would have come out as "there seems to be a misunderstanding on their part" or "perhaps we need to be dealing with someone at the client with a higher level of technical understanding", surely that sort of diplomatic communications is what diplomats are trained and paid to do?
I can't help but think how nice it'd be if all the taxpayer funded diplomats could hold their heads high and say "Yes, what Wikileaks just published was my professional communication as a trained diplomat. the opinions expressed were my opinions and I stand behind them."
There are times when I may have turned to a coworker and said "this client is STUPID!", but in any written correspondence that would have come out as "there seems to be a misunderstanding on their part" or "perhaps we need to be dealing with someone at the client with a higher level of technical understanding", surely that sort of diplomatic communications is what diplomats are trained and paid to do?