WikiLeaks sent out
this tweet about an hour ago.
UK Government has issued a ‘D-notice’ warning to all UK news editors, asking to be briefed on upcoming WikiLeaks stories
The next leak by WikiLeaks is expected to be a release of classified US files likely to cause international embarrassment and could damage some nations’ relations with the United States.
Reports
in the media say say several countries including the UK, Canada, Turkey, Israel, Denmark and Norway have also been warned to expect potential embarrassment from the leaks.
There are
five types of D-Notices. According to WikiLeaks,
D-Notice 1 and
D-Notice 5 (1 – Military operations, plans and capabilities; 5 – UK Security and Intelligence services and Special services) have been invoked.
...
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/11/26/media-censored-from-reporting-on-next-wikileaks-story/D-Notices are the UK government method of telling the UK media to stop reporting something, or they'll make life hell for the paper or broadcaster concerned forever. But it's all
voluntary, you understand.
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