Former Australian Foreign Minister: Snowden’s Behaviour Is Abominable
The latest reports from the Guardian based on Edward Snowden’s stolen NSA documents revealed that four years ago Australia wiretapped both the president of Indonesia and his wife, and this story has fractured the relationship between the two historically friendly neighboring countries.
Here’s an interesting perspective on this debacle, in an interview with former Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer from ABC News.
Mr. Downer doesn’t think very highly of what Snowden and his journalistic accomplices are doing; he points out that cooperation with Indonesia on people smuggling will be damaged by these stories, and concludes by saying:
Our good friendship, and our good relationship, and the interest we share shouldn’t be held hostage by the abominable behavior of Edward Snowden, and frankly the pretty irresponsible behavior by British left wing newspaper The Guardian.
