State Department Offers Muddled Support for Howard Gutman

By Daniel Halper
Published December 5, 2011 10:16pm ET
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State Department Offers Muddled Support for Howard Gutman
The last thing State Department spokesman Mark Toner says about Ambassador Howard Gutman, the U.S. diplomat in Belgium, at today’s press briefing is: “We have full confidence in him.” But it’s the exchange leading up to that admission that’s particularly interesting, as it’s devoid of both content and substance. Toner wants it both ways–to defend […]

The last thing State Department spokesman Mark Toner says about Ambassador Howard Gutman, the U.S. diplomat in Belgium, at today’s press briefing is: “We have full confidence in him.”

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