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December 5, 2005

Damaging Disclosures and the Plot to Bomb al-Jazeera by Kurt Nimmo

As an indication of how well-entrenched the police state is in Britain, consider the prosecution, under the Officials Secrets Act, of David Keogh, a former communications officer at the Cabinet Office, and Leo O’Connor, a former parliamentary researcher. “Mr. Keogh, 49, is charged with making a ‘damaging disclosure of a document relating to international relations’ without lawful authority, while Mr. O’Connor, 42, is charged with having receiving a document ‘through its disclosure without lawful authority by a crown servant,’” according to the Financial Times. “The document, according to a report in the Daily Mirror, detailed minutes of a conversation between Tony Blair and President George W. Bush, in which bombing the headquarters of the Arabic satellite TV channel al-Jazeera was discussed.”

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