It’s not Reuters, it’s the report itself. Makes a great case for defunding the UN.
just so you know.
the UN guy, Philip Alston, is the brother of Australian conservative politician, Richard Alston, who once had Alexander Downer’s High Commissioner job in the UK. here is the brother providing cover and nonsense for Downer, in a paper that is as anti-Trump as NYT & WaPo:
31 Dec 2017: Sydney Morning Herald: Alexander Downer named as crucial link in US investigation into Russian interference
By Michael Koziol
The Australian government went to ground on Sunday after the revelations were published, saying through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade that no comment would be made because the matters were subject to ongoing US investigations. Labor also declined to comment...
Mr Downer did not respond to calls on Sunday, but one of his predecessors as high commissioner, former senator Richard Alston, said there was nothing unusual about Mr Downer’s meeting with Mr Papadopoulos.
“We all mix with interesting people at times,” he said. “You do follow leads, and I don’t find anything particularly odd about that. You don’t necessarily know that someone’s a low-level lackey until you’ve met them, or even afterwards.”...
Mr Alston said intelligence officials would have been responsible for decisions about informing the Americans, not Mr Downer.
“You tell those people and then you leave it up to them. You don’t ask whether they’ve passed it on - they probably wouldn’t tell you anyway,” he said. “They guard their independence quite jealously. They certainly don’t share strategies and things like that with diplomats, even the high commissioner. They do their own thing.”...
On Twitter, many Americans told Mr Downer he was a “hero” and had helped to save democracy in the US...
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/alexander-downer-named-as-crucial-link-in-us-investigation-into-russian-interference-20171231-h0bpn9.html