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Friday, April 20, 2007 |
Bloomberg: "Two British men were accused by prosecutors of potentially endangering troops in Iraq by leaking a secret memo about a 2004 meeting between U.S. President George Bush and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.
David Keogh, 50, a former Cabinet communications officer, and political researcher Leo O'Connor, 44, are on trial in London for allegedly breaching Britain's Official Secrets Act. Prosecutor David Perry QC today claimed that the two men conspired to push the memo into the public domain after Keogh intercepted a confidential fax from Washington to London."
Guardian: "Two men are to be tried behind closed doors in an Old Bailey courtroom in a move that will stop the public finding out whether George Bush proposed what would have been a war crime and how Tony Blair reacted. The evidence the government does not want us to hear is in an official record of a meeting in Washington in April 2004, when the situation in Iraq was deteriorating fast. The memo, it has been reported, refers to Bush's alleged proposal to bomb the Arabic TV channel al-Jazeera, and is said to reveal how far Blair went in criticising US military tactics in Iraq at a time when troops were bombarding Falluja."
The trial continues.
So now it is a crime to uncover war crimes? The only persons to have been endangered by the leaking of the memo are George W. Bush and Tony Blair.
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© Copyright 2007 Hetty Litjens.
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