Sydney, Aug 22 (ANI): The U.S. Government should be blamed for the fact that its top secret documents and diplomatic cables were obtained by Julian Assange's whistle blowing WikiLeaks, a former head of Britain's MI5 has said.
Stella Rimington, a former MI5 director-general, however, also criticised Assange for releasing the documents.
She pointed out that Assange's 'naive' actions would only make governments more secretive, and that his approach had put lives at risk.
"What is not tolerated or healthy, in my opinion, is the indiscriminate pouring out into the public domain of streams of leaked documents by Julian Assange and his Wikileaks organisation," The Sydney Morning Herald quoted Rimington, as saying.
But she also stressed that the US government should have taken better steps to prevent Wikileaks from acquiring the information in the first place.
Rimington said the government took "no proper consideration" to what was genuinely secret and should be only available to a select few.
"One can criticise the United States for having a so-called secret database which was apparently available extensively ... including to a young soldier if the reports are true," she said.
The paper quoted Rimington, as saying that while the WikiLeaks saga could prompt the US government to come up with better databases, it would more likely encourage it to be even more secretive. (ANI)
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