Australian minister blames US for leaks
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December 9, 2010, Thursday
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AUSTRALIA'S foreign minister said yesterday that the American government is responsible for the leaking of classified diplomatic memos and cautioned against blaming the WikiLeaks website that published the secret cables and its founder.
United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other American officials have said that WikiLeaks acted illegally when it posted the sensitive files memos from American embassies around the world that have embarrassed Washington.
The US government is investigating whether Julian Assange, the website's Australian founder, can be prosecuted for espionage or other offenses.
But Kevin Rudd said the blame lies with the leaker and the US government's failure to protect its secrets properly.
"The bottom line here is that the core of all this lies with the failure of the government of the US to properly protect its own diplomatic communications," Rudd told Melbourne Talk Radio yesterday.
"To have several million people on their distribution list for a quarter of a million cables - that's where the problem lies and the person or persons responsible for their unauthorized release. Who then gets engaged in the business of disseminating the content of that information, be it WikiLeaks, or anybody else, well that's a matter to be tested by the police," Rudd said.
United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other American officials have said that WikiLeaks acted illegally when it posted the sensitive files memos from American embassies around the world that have embarrassed Washington.
The US government is investigating whether Julian Assange, the website's Australian founder, can be prosecuted for espionage or other offenses.
But Kevin Rudd said the blame lies with the leaker and the US government's failure to protect its secrets properly.
"The bottom line here is that the core of all this lies with the failure of the government of the US to properly protect its own diplomatic communications," Rudd told Melbourne Talk Radio yesterday.
"To have several million people on their distribution list for a quarter of a million cables - that's where the problem lies and the person or persons responsible for their unauthorized release. Who then gets engaged in the business of disseminating the content of that information, be it WikiLeaks, or anybody else, well that's a matter to be tested by the police," Rudd said.
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