willial, Snowden is responsible for putting the information into the public domain.
It wouldn't have mattered whether the ABC had of run with the story or not, the story would have still been in the public domain.
November 17, 2013 Edward Snowden News
Revealed: Australia tried to monitor Indonesian president's phone Secret documents show Australian spies targeted the mobile calls of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his wife.
Snowden leak reaffirms Australia's four spy installations
The Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald revealed that a number of slides allegedly leaked by Edward Snowden to Brazilian newspaper O Globo show Australia's connection with US signals intelligence operations.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was the beneficiary of British spying on Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the 2009 G20 summit meeting in London, according to Australian intelligence and foreign affairs sources.
Australia’s Kevin Rudd, the United Kingdom’s David Cameron and Indonesia’s Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono are at the heart of a diplomatic dispute over phone-tapping allegations. (AFP, Reuters, Rumgapres Photos)
