Pair Convicted for Leaking Infamous British Memo Detailing Bush’s Desire to Bomb Al Jazeera

A pair of British men were sentenced to jail on Thursday for leaking a classified memo that revealed President Bush told British Prime Minister Tony Blair in April 2004 that he wanted to bomb the Doha headquarters of the Arabic television network Al Jazeera.

On Thursday a former civil servant named David Keogh was sentenced to six months in jail for violating Britain's Official Secrets Act. A former parliamentary researcher named Leo O’Connor was given a three-month sentence. They were convicted after a highly secretive trial. The British government maintained that the memo was so sensitive that most of the trial could not take place in public in the interests of national security.

The Daily Mirror newspaper first reported on the existence of the memo but the British government has placed a gag order on other news organization. To talk more about the memo, Davide Simonetti of the website Blairwatch joins us in London.

* Davide Simonetti. Blogger with the website Blairwatch.

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