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THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT says it is investigating how a classified booklet detailing Barack Obama’s itinerary came to be lost in a gutter during the president’s visit last week.
Journalist Dylan Welch of The Age newspaper reported that he found the 120-page booklet on Thursday about 100 yards from Parliament House in Canberra, where Obama attended several functions during his 27-hour Australian visit.
The booklet contained details on Obama’s itinerary, his security convoy and the mobile phone numbers of senior U.S. and Australian officials.
Australia’s Attorney-General’s Department said in a statement today that it was investigating. The department said it did not comment on security matters.
Welch detailed how the booklet, entitled Overall Program and Orders of Arrangement, was classified ‘in confidence’ and contained more than 120 pages of the president’s minute-by-minute schedule.
It gave information about which door Obama uses to exit the vehicle he’s travelling in, and a breakdown of his secret service detail.
- Additional reporting by AP
found on the street by a newspaper reporter? are you having a laugh! these kind of things don’t happen! spin that propaganda web
How do you think it happened then Mr Conspiracy Theorist!?
Obviously leaked by someone…….what are the chances of it a) being thrown in a gutter and b) a journalist happening to be looking in that particular gutter and finding it.
It would appear that Daniel is correct, the newspaper has issued a “correction”, apparently it wasn’t what they thought it was.
I call shenanigans on this!!!
Damn these Americans are careless….
Well why does the USA want to put 4000 troops in Australia ?.. To protect against china ??? It’s banker ???? It’s all mischief to me
…But… but… its a training exercise of course!
*Nudge nudge wink wink*
China is involved in a number of territorial disputes with its neighbors. The US has mutual defense agreements with South Korea, Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, etc. Just because they are heavily linked economically doesn’t mean some small scale conflict would not happen.
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