And it gets worse...
Jul. 14th, 2019 07:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingersNew leaks...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48978484
Wherein we find that yet more of Sir Kim's private opinions are being paraded across the press. The fact that those opinions have been held by many folk worldwide is not the point.
But it does seem that the leaker has been identified:
www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jul/14/suspected-leaker-of-kim-darroch-emails-identified-report
And the various heads of the Civil Service are beginning to speak out:
www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/13/senior-civil-servants-warn-of-campaign-to-undermine-officials
Sir Nigel Sheinwald, one of Darroch’s predecessors as the UK ambassador in Washington, said the leak of emails could have a wider impact on the advice officials are willing to give. “Kim Darroch may have been the immediate target of the leak, but I suspect whoever was behind it has in mind a wider target of our system of public service and wanted to influence the way the next government handled the civil service, and was perhaps trying to influence the succession of Kim Darroch. This undermining of the public service has been going on for years and is clearly going to be a fundamental problem in the period ahead.”
So it seems that we have uncovered the person who leaked this stuff. I suppose an example has to be made pour encourager les autres, as Voltaire mentioned.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48978484
Wherein we find that yet more of Sir Kim's private opinions are being paraded across the press. The fact that those opinions have been held by many folk worldwide is not the point.
But it does seem that the leaker has been identified:
www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jul/14/suspected-leaker-of-kim-darroch-emails-identified-report
And the various heads of the Civil Service are beginning to speak out:
www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/13/senior-civil-servants-warn-of-campaign-to-undermine-officials
Sir Nigel Sheinwald, one of Darroch’s predecessors as the UK ambassador in Washington, said the leak of emails could have a wider impact on the advice officials are willing to give. “Kim Darroch may have been the immediate target of the leak, but I suspect whoever was behind it has in mind a wider target of our system of public service and wanted to influence the way the next government handled the civil service, and was perhaps trying to influence the succession of Kim Darroch. This undermining of the public service has been going on for years and is clearly going to be a fundamental problem in the period ahead.”
So it seems that we have uncovered the person who leaked this stuff. I suppose an example has to be made pour encourager les autres, as Voltaire mentioned.
