US not out to get Assange, ambassador says

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By Anna Hipsley
Updated February 11, 2011 08:37:00

The US ambassador to Australia .. Jeffrey Bleich told a business dinner in Melbourne .. that .. "Absolutely no such legal action has been taken by the US government against anyone and no action will be taken unless the facts and the law support it ...

"There have been individual Americans who have said reckless and irresponsible things about <Mr Assange> in the wake of the first tranche of releases, but these statements are completely at odds with the actions and the policy of the United States and we repudiate them," he said.

"The US government is absolutely responsible for protecting its classified information and so we bear full responsibility for this enormous security breach."

But he also said the activities of the whistleblower website are actually having a negative effect on diplomacy and damaging freedom of expression ...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/11/3135975.htm?section=justin