Posted on 08/28/2016 10:10:28 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Edited on 08/28/2016 11:35:43 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The French shipbuilder at the centre of a global submarine data leak scandal is threatening legal action today to prevent further publication of the information contained in 22,400 secret documents obtained by The Australian.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...
Would there be any point to this unless the paper obtained the documents themselves.
The paper is not likely to reveal their source without a long court battle and they may not know who the source is.
Regardless if the source feels threatened he may make the documents available to all comers on the internet.
So where does the freedom of the press end and INTERNATIONAL security begin?
If these documents are THAT sensitive, what on God’s green earth were the editors/journalists thinking?
The documents pertain to an Indian submarine programme, so it , in one sense, doesn’t affect Australia.
The same company has won a much larger contract to build new submarines for Australia. The bigger issue at play here is the information security that DCNS provides for the Aussie programme.
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