If there was any doubt whether the intercepted
"Fuck the EU" phone call between Assistant Secretary of State Nuland and the
US Ambassador to the Ukraine Pyatt was authentic, it can now be laid to rest: in
an earlier response to questions from reporters, State Department spokeswoman
Jen Psaki did not dispute authenticity of recording and essentially confirmed it
was real "I didn’t say it was inauthentic."
However, in the tried and true fashion of assigning blame elsewhere, the
world learned that it was really all Russia's fault and the released intercept
was a "new low of Russian tradecraft." Psaki added that there
are moments "in every diplomatic relationship" when you disagree, Psaki says.
But the absolute punchline: "It’s concerning that private conversation
was recorded."
Perhaps maybe the NSA can opine on the concernability of a private
conversation being recorded.
Then again in a world in which only the NSA is allowed to record every single
private conversation, one can easily see why the State Dept thought it was safe
to discuss its state subordination strategy over what appears to have been an
unencrypted landline. At least the CIA used to communicate by encrypted
redlines.
Finally, while Russian "tradecraft" may have hit a new low, so did US
reputation and standing abroad,
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