MPs leaked Bush plan to hit al-Jazeera

David Leigh and Richard Norton-Taylor
Monday January 9, 2006
The Guardian

Two Labour MPs have defied the Official Secrets Act by passing on the contents of a secret British document revealing how President George Bush wanted to bomb the Arabic TV station, al-Jazeera.

The document, a transcript of a meeting between Mr Bush and Tony Blair in April 2004 when the prime minister expressed concern about US military tactics in Iraq, is already the subject of an unprecedented official secrets prosecution in Britain, against an aide to one of the MPs and another man.

David Keogh, a Cabinet Office employee, is charged with leaking information damaging to international relations to Leo O'Connor, researcher to Tony Clarke, former MP for Northampton South. The two are due to appear in court tomorrow for committal hearings.

The information was then acquired by Mr Clarke, who in turn consulted his parliamentary colleague, Peter Kilfoyle. The two politicians decided to pass on the information to a contact in the US.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1682258,00.html?gusrc=rss

UK big BIG LEAKER ..... blaaaaair blaaaaaair

and keep quiet?

that's just like * spinning the NSA leak itself as being worse than his illegal activities!