Former ambassador: WikiLeaks release "damaging"
Documents include details of Danish efforts in Afghanistan and political analyses Cables about the Danish efforts in Afghanistan and “candid analyses of rising political leaders” are among the documents about Denmark included in the latest WikiLeaks release, according to former...
Cables about the Danish efforts in Afghanistan and “candid analyses of rising political leaders” are among the documents about Denmark included in the latest WikiLeaks release, according to former US Ambassador James P Cain.
Cain, who was ambassador from 2005 to 2009, told TV station WRAL in the state of North Carolina that some of the 297 diplomatic cables sent from Denmark and released by WikiLeaks on Sunday came from his desk.
He underscored that the released documents were intended to be read by officials in the White House.
“The cables that I wrote, they were written for the president. And they were to guide the president on his decision-making.”
He emphasised that the public disclosure of the cables sent from Copenhagen could cause “severe damage” to national security, and called the WikiLeaks release “high treason”.
Cain added that he hoped that the WikiLeaks revelations would not hurt the relationship between Denmark and the current or future American ambassadors.
None of the documents relating to Denmark have been released by WikiLeaks yet. The Foreign Ministry has previously indicated that it does not wish to receive these documents before their publication.
The Foreign Ministry has, instead, received information from the American embassy about the contents of the documents.
On Sunday, WikiLeaks began to release some of the 250,000 secret US diplomatic cables. Over the next few months, documents will gradually be released online.