John
11-28-2010, 07:04 PM
The US administration's unflattering assessment of David Cameron is set to be made public on the Wikileaks website.
Simon Hoggart, a journalist on The Guardian - one of the newspapers that has been working with the whistleblowers' site on the release of the material - said the publication would be an "embarrassment" for the Prime Minister.
He confirmed that the newspaper would be releasing extensive details of the files on Monday.
"It is going to give the candid American views of world leaders and indeed the reverse too," he told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show.
"There is going to be some embarrassment certainly for Gordon Brown but even more so for David Cameron who was not very highly regarded by the Obama administration or by the US ambassador here."
The US administration has warned that the release of thousands of State Department files would put "countless" lives at risk, threaten global counter-terrorism operations and jeopardise America's relations with its allies.
The State Department's senior lawyer Harold Koh has written to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, warning that the publication could do massive harm to America's standing by exposing secret military operations.
Mr Koh sent the message in response to a letter from Mr Assange and his lawyer in which they asked about the safety of people who might be named in the files. Mr Koh said that the US would not co-operate or negotiate with WikiLeaks.
Source - Yahoo News.
Simon Hoggart, a journalist on The Guardian - one of the newspapers that has been working with the whistleblowers' site on the release of the material - said the publication would be an "embarrassment" for the Prime Minister.
He confirmed that the newspaper would be releasing extensive details of the files on Monday.
"It is going to give the candid American views of world leaders and indeed the reverse too," he told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show.
"There is going to be some embarrassment certainly for Gordon Brown but even more so for David Cameron who was not very highly regarded by the Obama administration or by the US ambassador here."
The US administration has warned that the release of thousands of State Department files would put "countless" lives at risk, threaten global counter-terrorism operations and jeopardise America's relations with its allies.
The State Department's senior lawyer Harold Koh has written to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, warning that the publication could do massive harm to America's standing by exposing secret military operations.
Mr Koh sent the message in response to a letter from Mr Assange and his lawyer in which they asked about the safety of people who might be named in the files. Mr Koh said that the US would not co-operate or negotiate with WikiLeaks.
Source - Yahoo News.