Jewely,

Thanks for the link.
Mr McClelland seems to be adept at repeatedly stating a conclusion while simultaneously claiming that he has no responsibility to determine such a thing....?

Going to the crux of the leaks, senior U.S. political commentator, Fareed Zakaria, writes in the latest edition of Time Magazine that: "Our anger at Wikileaks should not obscure the fact that it is Washington's absurd data sharing policy that made this possible. That's the scandal here that needs fixing."

Don't waste your time trying to fathom the verbal gyrations trotted out daily on this subject by our senior pollies. Instead, ponder the reasons why so many of us have responded so passionately to it.
George Orwell was onto something when he wrote:
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act

It seems that MP's from the left-wing of Gillard's parliamentary faction are revolting....enraged at the government's treatment of Julian Assange.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/julia-gillards-left-flank-revolts-over-julian-assange/story-fn775xjq-1225969233504

Not just the left Poirot, I hope.
It will cost me Friends but such is life, the dills who can not see Labor looks better on its feet than down on its knees are fools.
This will not go away.
Am I blinded by my views?
I understand we need America, but they are are they not, slipping away from freedom and democracy?
The GFC theft crimes against investors,did not bring calls for even death.
Has todays America been influenced much by its childhood study of Scrooge MC Ducks money bin?
We need ten Wikileaks.

belly..you know how loyalty goes
if not think of it as like talking
about ya wife or your boss or your party

somethings..arnt for cocktail party tittilation..or big noting

lets look at the white-anting..of all keven does friom then on
or the oppertuinity to build favour with julia..6 mths before she becomes the queen..

its teason...how ever its cloaked
or gossiping ...big noting..or bragetery
he deserves shooting...with a lump of his own dung

then what julia did in criminaling julian...without proof..or evidence
further reveals...there is too much of nuthing but gossip going on ammoung the labrats...as well as the liboc-rats

wont even get into the greenies dangling from their noses

bah politics make me bilious
po-lic-titions...are lower than the scum
flowing under the door lintles of the elite...lording it over the feral scum...lording it over the real scum

this smells worse than the old poolroom..in old parliment house

Belly,
I have made this comment before but i think that we are and have been for some time now, very poor friends to the US. What sort of friend goes along with his mate when he is making big mistakes. It has been like the US is driving drunk and we keep supplying more grog. Dosen't a real friend stand up and say give me the keys your making a mistake. If the friend won't realise what they are doing you hold out for some time but eventually they are not much of a friend.

Nairbe in part America has been driving drunk from about 1960, some may say 1950.
At the same time as the CIA was meddling in Chile America was also donating massive money to good things.
Australia may have played a bigger role in American involvement in Vietnam than they did.
What other country can we call on.
I think you, I and the world needs to look at the very real wrongs here.
England Germany, France Portugal, Spain and Holland, include every colonial power, acted no differently than the yanks here.
Australia, under two different forms of government sold half of new Guinea out we have no halo.
I revel in Wikileaks, welcome the blushes on a lot of faces.
No longer thanks to the net can we be lied to with safety.
But for me, truly the biggest crime is America and its Allys, us too acting like Nazis, not one gee we are sorry we said that.
Watch FOX hold on I know its torture but worth the effort, Gobells was an amateur he was no match for the worst of America.
Yet much good comes along with the bad from the USA.