UPDATE 2:26pm: A DEFENCE taskforce will investigate the implications for Australia resulting from some 400,000 US military documents on Iraq leaked by Wikileaks.
Defence Minister Stephen Smith said a taskforce set up in July by his predecessor John Faulkner would look at the documents to see if their leaking presented a risk for Australian interests.
He said the taskforce, which handed over its report on the Afghanistan documents on Friday, had concluded the leaking of those some 77,000 US military files, a few mentioning Australian operations, had caused no damage.
Mr Smith said the taskforce would now be tasked with going through the latest leaked documents.
"The taskforce that we charged to look at the earlier unauthorised leak of classified documentation will now be given the task to painstakingly go through this large volume of documents," he told the Nine Network today.
UPDATE 2:26pm: A DEFENCE taskforce will investigate the implications for Australia resulting from some 400,000 US military documents on Iraq leaked by Wikileaks.Defence Minister Stephen Smith said a taskforce set up in July by his predecessor John Faulkner would look at the documents to see if their leaking presented a risk for Australian interests.
He said the taskforce, which handed over its report on the Afghanistan documents on Friday, had concluded the leaking of those some 77,000 US military files, a few mentioning Australian operations, had caused no damage.
Mr Smith said the taskforce would now be tasked with going through the latest leaked documents.
"The taskforce that we charged to look at the earlier unauthorised leak of classified documentation will now be given the task to painstakingly go through this large volume of documents," he told the Nine Network today.
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