Secret Iraq memo leaked by civil servant

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By Bonnie Malkin and agencies
Last Updated: 1:38pm BST 18/04/2007



A secret Downing Street memo detailing talks between US President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair was leaked by a civil servant, the Old Bailey has heard.


David Keogh is a former civil servant
David Keogh passed the memo to a friend, Leo O'Connor, at a local dining club in Northampton.

But police were called in when political researcher O'Connor placed it in papers for his boss, Anthony Clarke, Labour MP for Northampton South, to see, the jury was told.

David Perry QC, prosecuting, said the reason the memo was leaked was to bring its contents into the public domain.

But the record of the April 16, 2004, meeting in Washington was sensitive and was concerned with the US and UK policy towards Iraq.

were created to send our country and the UK to war.

Meanwhile, so far, Shrub and Blair go unscathed....