ANONS! Found this in killarys emails. Connects: jaredn cohen, alex ross, and executives from Microsoft, facebook, google etc

https:// wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/2370

CNN ON SYRIA

From: Cheryl Mills

To: Hillary Clinton

Date: 2010-06-30 17:44

Subject: CNN ON SYRIA

UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05769255 Date: 08/31/2015

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Original Message

From: Alec Ross

To: Mills, Cheryl D; Reines, Philippe I; Sullivan, Jacob J; ChoIlet, Derek H; Crowley, Philip J; (U) Benton, Cheryl A

Cc: Toiv, Nora F

Sent: Thu Jul 01 19:44:47 2010

Subject: CNN on Syria

Washington (CNN) – Sometimes foreign policy isn't best digested 140 characters at a time.

That's what a pair of young State Department officials found in Syria, where they were leading a trade delegation of

Silicon Valley executives. Their bosses back in Washington were mortified when media blogs picked up the musings of

Alec Ross and Jared Cohen on Twitter about which Syrian cafes serve the greatest frappuccino (Kalamoon

University) and their challenge to the Syrian telecom minister for a cake-eating contest (called "Creative Diplomacy.")

Creative, indeed.

It was a mild, but unfortunate distraction from what was widely considered an otherwise productive mission. The

delegation of senior executives, from tech heavyweights like Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Dell, met with Syrian

President Bashar al-Assad and other officials, as well as businessmen, civil society groups and academics battling their

government's tight-fisted control on the Internet.

The visit illustrated both the opportunities and the landmines Hillary Clinton's State Department has to navigate as it

logs into the digital age.

In Foggy Bottom, one needs to be fired up about being wired up.

Blogging and tweeting are now part of every diplomat's job description. At any given moment you can find someone like

the top official on Latin America tweeting in Spanish about his latest trip to Peru, or Secretary Clinton herself posting

podcasts on the State Department website and soliciting questions from the public on the State Department's blog,

Dipnote.

Beneath the web atmospherics is what Ross, Clinton's "innovation"

guru, calls "21st century statecraft."

Ross, a 38-year-old former technology adviser to the Obama campaign, and his partner in crime, Jared Cohen, a 28-year-

old author on genocide, youth and jihad who joined the State Department during the Bush administration, are at the

forefront of a new push by Clinton to use technology and social media as a diplomatic tool. Since taking office, Clinton

has made the spread of information technology and Internet freedom a cornerstone of her foreign policy, hoping both

will serve as catalysts for spreading democracy.

It used to be one of the biggest carrots the State Department could dangle before a country was a visit by the secretary

of state. Now it is a delegation of Silicon Valley heavyweights led by Ross and Cohen, which might include executives

from Microsoft, Google or Facebook.