Secretary Clinton calls unprecedented meeting of top envoys

Secretary Clinton arrived in Haiti yesterday.

Having largely ignored Secretary Clinton during her tenure as secretary of state, the upheaval in Egypt has called the media's attention to the fact that she plays a major role in US foreign policy. On  Sunday, the secretary was a guest on five talk shows, and today's headlines shout that she called an  unprecedented meeting of top envoys that began in Washington today.

From an AP report at the Huffington Post:

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is convening an unprecedented mass meeting of U.S. ambassadors.

The top envoys from nearly all of America's 260 embassies, consulates and other posts in more than 180 countries will be gathering at the State Department beginning on Monday. Officials say it's the first such global conference.

The gathering comes at a time of crisis in Egypt that could reshape dynamics in the Middle East, fallout from leaked diplomatic documents and congressional calls for sweeping cuts in foreign aid.

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Julian Assange’s God complex and his problems with women, including Hillary Clinton

Steve Kroft’s interview of Julian Assange on 60 Minutes this Sunday was unnerving. Assange is a smooth talking, slick looking character radiating a discomfiting aura. He had self-serving answers to all of Kroft’s questions and didn’t hesitate to position himself as a superior being with the divine right to manipulate world leaders and diplomats as he sees fit. He gets to judge them, too.

And he singled out Hillary Clinton for his most intense expression of contempt. Considering that he’s been accused of rape by two women in Sweden, one detects a strong tendency toward misogyny.

More frightening than any other aspect of the interview, though, was Assange’s apparently unquestioned belief that he knows what’s best for all people – kind of a God complex, wouldn’t you say?

In the meantime, the man determined to expose the secrets of others, whether endangering innocent lives or not, is himself surrounded by secrecy.

Watch the interview on 60 Minutes: