Friday, May 11, 2007

Men who tried to leak Bush memo jailed

By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor
Published: 11 May 2007

A civil servant and an MP's researcher were jailed for disclosing the contents of a secret memo recording discussions between Tony Blair and George Bush about the war in Iraq.

David Keogh, 50, a Cabinet Office communications officer, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for copying the four-page document and passing it on to Leo O'Connor, 44, a researcher for an anti-war Labour MP, Tony Clarke. O'Connor, who passed the memo to Mr Clarke, was jailed for three months for breaching the Official Secrets Act. continue...

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