Revealed: Canberra Shared Intel on Assange with Washington

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2. "We haven't seen the reports, so we'll just pretend to know what's in them"

Actually this story is at least a year old by now

But the last time it was reported, it was reported slightly differently, as an intelligence investigation into the question of whether the Wikileaks release of US military and diplomatic materials had damaged Australian intelligence capabilities

That would have been a reasonable question for the Australians to ask themselves, and the US might have been interested in the question as well, since compromising the abilities of an ally would have been an unfortunate extra problem

The reports back then said that the Australian investigations concluded Australian intelligence capabilities had not been affected