The Shetland News columnist and teacher Genevieve White, a long-standing Labour voter, said: "I was pretty surprised to hear about Alistair Carmichael's part in the leak.
However the specifics of his court testimony, which took place behind locked doors because of the potential damage to the FBI's investigation in the event of a leak, remained sealed.
Investigators say it's still not clear what caused a toxic chemical to leak from a valve at a suburban Houston plant, killing four workers and injuring a fifth.
The workers were exposed early Saturday while responding to the leak that started around 4am and took about two hours to contain.
The leak was so amateur (can this be Carmichael's first time?) it took only a few phone records to trace it, not the reported £1.4m.
Snowden, who is hiding in a safe house in Hong Kong, where he remains free despite admitting to the biggest leak of US secrets in a generation, spent nearly two hours taking questions on the Guardian website.
She also asked Sir Jeremy Heywood, the cabinet secretary, to conduct a leak inquiry, and Carmichael went public with his confession and apology after the findings of that inquiry were published on Friday afternoon.
Carmichael has been under intense pressure not just for his role in the leak but for telling Channel 4 news after the leak that the first he knew of the matter was when it was reported in the Telegraph.
In the wake of the Dvorkovich emails leak, the Russian parliament has been discussing legislation to make sending official information through non-governmental email services a crime.
The new installation did not pass inspection, he said, but there had been no reports of a gas leak at the site.
It really was a toss-up about what was more noteworthy: that Abbott gave that overly frank account of his private scheduling to a room full of people; or that people would leak it, knowing that's a highly damaging concept to have floating out there.
