Two Parliament Members Leaked Bush’s Proposal to Bomb Al Jazeera
It was not staffers but actual Labour MPs who leaked the memo to the U.S. | storyGuardian: Two Labour MPs have defied the Official Secrets Act by passing on the key contents of the British document revealing that President George Bush wanted to bomb the Arabic TV station, al-Jazeera.
The document, a transcript of a meeting with Tony Blair in April 2004, is already the subject of an unprecedented official secrets prosecution in Britain, against an aide to one of the MPs and another man. | story
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