Month January 2006

Official Secrets Act has no teeth

The Official Secrets Act in Britain, it appears, is mostly bluff. The recent re-posting by 4,000 bloggers of documents from Craig Murray may have rendered this noxious act impotent. Good. Whitehall unconfidential: the censors are on the run There is…

Duke and Black Jack

Sweat pours from the Congressman’s face. It’s only 10 am, but he reaches for a whiskey. He reads the headline again. "Duke Cunningham wore a wire." His mind races, Duke is going to prison, those meetings we had, if those…