Clinton ‘should resign,’ says WikiLeaks founder
US: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday that Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton should resign if it is shown US diplomats were
ordered to engage in espionage.
Assange, the target of a US criminal investigation following
WikiLeaks release of masses of classified US diplomatic cables this
week, took aim at Clinton in an interview with Time magazine that was
conducted from an undisclosed location over the Skype Internet phone
service.
Clinton “should resign, if it can be shown that she was responsible
for ordering US diplomatic figures to engage in espionage in the United
Nations, in violation of the international covenants to which the US has
signed up,” he said.
“Yes, she should resign over that.”
On Sunday, his website and a group of media outlets released the
first batch of a quarter million US diplomatic cables most of which date
from between 2007 and February 2010.
The trove revealed secret details and indiscreet asides on some of
the world’s most tense international issues.
Washington, Wednesday, AFP
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