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Blair threat to gag newspapers in iraq { November 24 2005 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/blair-threat-to-gag-newspapers-on-iraq/2005/11/23/1132703251352.html http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/blair-threat-to-gag-newspapers-on-iraq/2005/11/23/1132703251352.html Blair threat to gag newspapers on Iraq By Richard Norton-Taylor, London November 24, 2005 BRITAIN'S Attorney-General has threatened newspapers with the Official Secrets Act if they reveal the contents of a document allegedly relating to a dispute between Tony Blair and George Bush over 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 lead-up to the invasion of Iraq. The Attorney-General, Lord Peter Goldsmith, has referred editors to newspaper stories on the contents of a memo supposed to have been at the centre of charges against two men under the Secrets Act. Under the front-page headline "Bush plot to bomb his ally", London's Daily Mirror reported that the US President last year planned to attack the Arabic television station al-Jazeera, which has its headquarters in Doha, the capital of Qatar, where US and British bombers were based. Daily Mirror editor Richard Wallace said: "We made No. 10 fully aware of the intention to publish and were given 'no comment' officially or unofficially. Suddenly 24 hours later we are threatened under section 5 (of the Secrets Act)." Under section 5, it is an offence to have come into possession of government information or a document from a Crown servant if that person discloses it without lawful authority. The prosecution has to prove the disclosure was damaging. The Mirror said the memo turned up in May last year at the constituency office of the former Labour MP for Northampton South, Tony Clarke. Last week Leo O'Connor, a former researcher for Mr Clarke, was charged under section 5 with receiving a document. David Keogh, a former Foreign Office official seconded to the Cabinet Office, was charged last week with making a "damaging disclosure of a document relating to international relations". Keogh, 49, is accused of sending the document to O'Connor, 42. Mr Clarke said yesterday that O'Connor "did the right thing" by drawing the document to his attention. Mr Clarke, an anti-war MP who lost his seat at the last election, returned the document to the Government. O'Connor and Keogh were released on bail last week to appear in the Bow Street Magistrates Court on Tuesday. When the pair were charged, newspapers reported the memo contained a transcript of talks between Mr Blair and Mr Bush during a meeting in the US. It is understood to reveal Mr Blair disagreed with Mr Bush about aspects of the Iraq war. There was widespread comment at the time that the British Government was angry about US military tactics, particularly in Fallujah. GUARDIAN, NEW YORK TIMES, REUTERS

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