“The [US] State Department does what any other diplomacy does, said Walston. “They are there to report on what goes on in their country reasonably accurately – and they get that from the local newspapers, they get it from their own sources, they have private sources.” Walston went on to say, “Sometimes they do things which are ‘undiplomatic’. We should not be surprised if, every now and again, someone gets caught doing it, and there are a lot of red faces.”
Professor of international relations at The American University of Rome, James Walston, told Vatican Radio that the leaks have thus far been a cause of embarrassment, but not a threat to security – as were the classified military documents wikiLeaks released earlier in the year. “The [US] State Department does what any other diplomacy does, said Walston. “They are there to report on what goes on in their country reasonably accurately – and they get that from the local newspapers, they get it from their own sources, they have private sources.” Walston went on to say, “Sometimes they do things which are ‘undiplomatic’. We should not be surprised if, every now and again, someone gets caught doing it, and there are a lot of red faces.”
