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The Swansong Has Ended (but the mendacity lingers on)
by ianrthorpe @ 2007-05-11 - 17:09:34

It was an even better day to bury bad news than 9/11.
As we all celebrated Blair's announcement that he is, at last, to quite, few noticed that Civil Servant David Keogh and Parliamentary researcher Leo O'Connor were quietly jailed for attempting to leak to the media details of a meeting between the war crimninals and mass murderers Bush and Blair in which they hatched plans for the destruction of Falluja.
Publising details of the documents may have breached the Official Secrets Act, (for which the rabid (my country) right (or wrong) brigade would have them shot at dawn, but surely if we are to claim that human rights count for anything in this alleged democracy this is one occasion when the public interest overides any other consideration.
Am I right to say that. Well senior military figures and civil servants in the MOD and Foreign Office seem to think so as representatives of both have condemned the verdict as unjust.

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