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32. Legal Gag On Bush/Blair War Row (Guardian UK)
Legal Gag on Bush/Blair War Row

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1648590,00....

Legal gag on Bush-Blair war row

Richard Norton-Taylor
Wednesday November 23, 2005
The Guardian


The attorney general last night threatened newspapers with the Official Secrets Act if they revealed the contents of a document allegedly relating to a dispute between Tony Blair and George Bush over the conduct of military operations in Iraq.
It is believed to be the first time the Blair government has threatened newspapers in this way. Though it has obtained court injunctions against newspapers, the government has never prosecuted editors for publishing the contents of leaked documents, including highly sensitive ones about the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.

The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, last night referred editors to newspaper reports yesterday that described the contents of a memo purporting to be at the centre of charges against two men under the secrets act.


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  -Legal gag on Bush-Blair war row muriel_volestrangler  Nov-22-05 06:43 PM   #0 
  - whow--whow  rodeodance   Nov-22-05 06:46 PM   #1 
  - What is the take in GB? You and I have been following this  IChing   Nov-22-05 06:47 PM   #2 
  - Most are reporting it fairly prominently  muriel_volestrangler   Nov-22-05 07:12 PM   #11 
     - Thank you for such a great up-date  IChing   Nov-22-05 11:15 PM   #23 
  - No further argument- guilty as sin. Hah!  TomInTib   Nov-22-05 06:48 PM   #3 
  - looks like Clarke borrowed it for a while-then returned it.  rodeodance   Nov-22-05 06:50 PM   #6 
  - Exactly my thought.  drm604   Nov-23-05 03:06 PM   #49 
  - Geezus Kreist on a pogostick!  ananda   Nov-22-05 06:49 PM   #4 
  - So, post it on the net somewhere unaffiliated... n/t  madeline_con   Nov-22-05 06:50 PM   #5 
  - sure hope there is a photocopy floating around somewhere.  rodeodance   Nov-22-05 06:52 PM   #7 
  - cnn: U.S.: Al-Jazeera bomb story 'outlandish'  rodeodance   Nov-22-05 06:57 PM   #8 
  - You just know there is. Feelings are running so strong on this  TomInTib   Nov-22-05 06:58 PM   #10 
     - only no freedom of the press in UK  TheBaldyMan   Nov-22-05 07:23 PM   #12 
        - Rawstory have a *good* piece on this, that I saw in GD  evermind   Nov-23-05 02:58 PM   #46 
           - thanks for the link evermind  TheBaldyMan   Nov-23-05 09:07 PM   #55 
              - I must have missed that Guardian story! Any links to more info? (n/t)  evermind   Nov-23-05 10:50 PM   #57 
                 - Guardian was required to remove all info from website.  TheBaldyMan   Nov-25-05 03:08 AM   #58 
                    - no info on story  TheBaldyMan   Nov-25-05 11:15 AM   #59 
  - The net will spread the news  lumpy   Nov-22-05 08:21 PM   #17 
  - You've really been on top of things lately in the U.K. news, MV  daleo   Nov-22-05 06:58 PM   #9 
  - ditto....  PassingFair   Nov-22-05 07:40 PM   #15 
     - Well, thank you both  muriel_volestrangler   Nov-22-05 08:54 PM   #19 
  - No problem - just send it to an affiliate overseas and get it plastered...  FormerRepublican   Nov-22-05 07:34 PM   #13 
  - Ah, but in this case the story has been published.  EuroObserver   Nov-22-05 07:39 PM   #14 
  - Maybe they're drawing attention to it on purpose.  FormerRepublican   Nov-22-05 08:10 PM   #16 
  - Proof of guilt!!!!........PUBLISH IT!!!!  goforit   Nov-22-05 08:27 PM   #18 
  - I believe the British press could take Blair to the woodshed on this one.  ncteechur   Nov-22-05 09:16 PM   #20 
  - As reported by WP  ShockediSay   Nov-22-05 11:09 PM   #21 
  - WaPo's whores put the story in page A14. OUTRAGE!  IndianaGreen   Nov-23-05 03:00 AM   #27 
     - That's why I used to read newspapers inside-out.  leveymg   Nov-23-05 07:32 AM   #31 
     - That's how it started w/ Watergate  ShockediSay   Nov-23-05 09:33 PM   #56 
  - if this isn't admission, it's madness.  truthisfreedom   Nov-22-05 11:13 PM   #22 
  - Read about this hero. Officer refused to close down media outlet.  Tom Joad   Nov-22-05 11:34 PM   #24 
  - I'm glad Downing Street is flying off the handle over this  oxbow   Nov-22-05 11:42 PM   #25 
  - This is incontrovertible evidence that Bush did threaten to bomb Qatar  IndianaGreen   Nov-23-05 02:56 AM   #26 
  - Agreed 100%. The memo's genuine.  Seabiscuit   Nov-23-05 03:40 AM   #30 
  - This should end speculation about the truth of the "bomb Al-Jazeera" doc  Stockholm   Nov-23-05 03:08 AM   #28 
  - This had nothing to do with "military operations in Iraq"  Seabiscuit   Nov-23-05 03:39 AM   #29 
  - Legal Gag On Bush/Blair War Row (Guardian UK)  doxieone   Nov-23-05 08:18 AM   #32 
  - U.K. charges official with leaking Blair memo (so, --there WAS a memo)  rodeodance   Nov-23-05 08:18 AM   #33 
  - msnbc (mostly) and cnn were reporting on this yesterday but I did not  rodeodance   Nov-23-05 08:18 AM   #34 
  - This should be a BIG story in our news. I can't understand why it...  Missy M   Nov-23-05 08:18 AM   #37 
  - I can't believe Chimpy was dumb enough to discuss  ccbombs   Nov-23-05 08:18 AM   #39 
     - Let alone.....  BronxBoy   Nov-23-05 04:34 PM   #52 
  - so the poodle remains a poodle.  xchrom   Nov-23-05 08:18 AM   #35 
  - Yeah...a spat is a matter of national security  Roland99   Nov-23-05 08:18 AM   #36 
  - Thank you!  ccbombs   Nov-23-05 08:18 AM   #38 
     - Possibly  PinkUnicorn   Nov-23-05 08:18 AM   #40 
        - Yep, as usual the denial was a flat-out lie.  sofa king   Nov-23-05 08:18 AM   #43 
  - This was deep within the pages of the NYT this morning.  NoSunWithoutShadow   Nov-23-05 08:18 AM   #41 
  - Blair does, * follows  paineinthearse   Nov-23-05 08:18 AM   #42 
  - Brits: Are you speaking up?  zanne   Nov-23-05 08:18 AM   #44 
  - Reuters have now issued a "corrected" version of this story  evermind   Nov-23-05 02:52 PM   #45 
  - There is a memo, and the memo shows Bush as a dangerous lose canon  IndianaGreen   Nov-23-05 03:53 PM   #50 
  - There has to be a copy of that somewhere  warrens   Nov-23-05 02:59 PM   #47 
  - There may be  Briar   Nov-23-05 03:04 PM   #48 
  - Oh Mr. Boosh, your credibility is gapping  donkeyotay   Nov-23-05 04:29 PM   #51 
  - Leak it to the international press, then  daleo   Nov-23-05 04:50 PM   #53 
  - Googled "Bush Al Jazeera". Getting lots of play.  oblivious   Nov-23-05 05:10 PM   #54 
 

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