British Would-Be Whistleblowers Found Guilty

Recollect that leaked British memo about Bush and Blair discussing whether or not to bomb al-Jazeera headquarters in Qatar and the subsequent gag order a couple of years ago on the Mirror for publishing it?

The memo alleges that President Bush expressed his frustration with al-Jazeera, which is the equivalent of a large broadcast news company such as CNN and has a viewership of 50 million, and wanted to bomb their headquarters using US bombers stationed nearby.

Blair, according to the memo, dissuaded the President from this action because Qatar is an ally of the US and such an action would result in severe backlash.

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Well, the leakers, a Foreign Office official in the Cabinet, David Keogh and Leo O'Connor, researcher for former Labor MP for Northampton South, Tony Clarke, were tried and found guilty of breaking the Official Secrets Act.

Larisa Alexandrovna (at-Largely) writes:

So, two government officials acting out of their conscience to expose President Bush's plans to bomb journalists are found guilty. So I suppose the next time the EU demands that Russia investigate the murder of countless Russian journalists, Vladamir Putin can point to this case and laugh. Qatar is a US ally and the US planned on bombing a major broadcasting organization.

In fact, what the US did do, was bomb al-Jazeera in Iraq, and apparently, that's okay.

....hey, do what you want....you will anyway.