In a wide-ranging press conference at United Nations headquarters on December 2nd, the United States' UN ambassador Susan Rice continued to play down any negative impact from WikiLeaks' release of sensitive State Department documents. She also denied that any of the U.S. diplomats, at least those under her control, had done anything improper. She carried over the same theme that she relayed to reporters earlier in the week on November 29th when the State Department leaks were first published. Responding to reporters' questions on both occasions, Rice said that "our diplomats are just that - diplomats. That's what they do every day. They do the work of diplomats and nothing else."
