Attorney General orders probe on alleged security breach during Obama’s visit

November 22, 2011

Australian authorities have launched a probe on the 'abandoned' security manual used during U.S. President Barack Obama's short stay in the country, giving out minute details of the trip including sensitive security measures designed by the U.S. Security Service.

In a statement, Attorney General Robert McClelland has indicated that his office's attention was called on the incident, considered by experts as a serious security breach involving a high-profile world leader, and an inquiry on the matter is now underway.

In a report by Fairfax journalist Dylan Welch, who stumbled upon the security manual in a gutter near the Australian Parliament in Canberra, the booklet gloriously discussed Obama's Australian trip last week, which lasted only 27 hours but required elaborate security implements both observed by American and Aussie security specialists. Read more