- The British Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, is threatening
to prosecute any newspaper, including the Mirror, for publishing the Top
Secret memo under Britain's draconian Official Secrets Act. [Ed. note
- WMR will be more than happy to publish the Al Jazeera bombing memo or
any other classified British government memo in whole or in part. E-mail
to waynemadsendc@hotmail.com. The web makes the Official Secrets Act a
true "paper tiger."]
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- Keogh passed the memo to Leo O'Connor, an assistant
to former British Labor MP Tony Clarke. Both Keogh and O'Connor face charges
of violating Britain's quaint and arcane Official Secrets Act. However,
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) translator and analyst Katharine
Gun had similar charges against her dropped when it became apparent that
her trial on the leak of a Top Secret National Security Agency (NSA) directive
to GCHQ to begin surge surveillance of UN Security Council members prior
to a 2003 vote on an Iraq war resolution would embarrass the Blair government.
Neither were their criminal sanctions as a result of the leak of the "Downing
Street Memo," marked Secret and Strictly Personal - UK Eyes Only,
that pointed to premeditation between Bush and Blair to justify the war
against Iraq.
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- These newest revelations point to several issues. Current
and former members of the British government are as rebellious over the
neo-con takeover of their government as are their American counterparts
with regard to their own government. The fact that Bush would entertain
bombing an ally and an independent news media operation points to his
current mindset. Bush made his statement to Blair at the same time others
in his White House were contemplating a pre-election attack on Iran's
nuclear sites. Bush and his coterie of advisers are the most dangerous
regime in the world today, a group of people who have their hands on triggers
of weapons of total destruction (WTDs).
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- http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
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