-- Another British whistleblower and another leaked memo that points to the deranged nature of George W. Bush

November 22, 2005 -- Another British whistleblower and another leaked memo that points to the deranged nature of George W. Bush. According to the London Daily Mirror, British Cabinet officer David Keogh joins fellow British government civil servants in facing criminal charges for leaking a damaging Top secret memo that reported that Bush told visiting British Prime Minister Tony Blair during an April 16, 2004 visit to the White House that he wanted to bomb the Doha, Qatar headquarters of the international satellite channel Al Jazeera. Qatar is an oil-rich ally of the United States and home to U.S. military supporting the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

Blair is reported to have talked Bush out of any such attack on Doha.

Nov. 23 UPDATE - The British Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, is threatening to prosecute any newspaper, including the Mirror, for publishing the Top Secret memo under Britain's draconian Official Secrets Act. [Ed. note - WMR will be more than happy to publish the Al Jazeera bombing memo or any other classified British government memo in whole or in part. E-mail to waynemadsendc@hotmail.com. The web makes the Official Secrets Act a true "paper tiger."]

Keogh passed the memo to Leo O'Connor, an assistant to former British Labor MP Tony Clarke. Both Keogh and O'Connor face charges of violating Britain's quaint and arcane Official Secrets Act. However, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) translator and analyst Katharine Gun had similar charges against her dropped when it became apparent that her trial on the leak of a Top Secret National Security Agency (NSA) directive to GCHQ to begin surge surveillance of UN Security Council members prior to a 2003 vote on an Iraq war resolution would embarrass the Blair government. Neither were their criminal sanctions as a result of the leak of the "Downing Street Memo," marked Secret and Strictly Personal - UK Eyes Only, that pointed to premeditation between Bush and Blair to justify the war against Iraq.

These newest revelations point to several issues. Current and former members of the British government are as rebellious over the neo-con takeover of their government as are their American counterparts with regard to their own government. The fact that Bush would entertain bombing an ally and an independent news media operation points to his current mindset. Bush made his statement to Blair at the same time others in his White House were contemplating a pre-election attack on Iran's nuclear sites. Bush and his coterie of advisers are the most dangerous regime in the world today, a group of people who have their hands on triggers of weapons of total destruction (WTDs).
Powerful interests in Washington stand ready to help him out the door

There are strong indications in Washington, DC that there has been a coalescence of powerful political, military, and financial interests that do not want to see either Bush or Cheney remain in office for the rest of their remaining three year term unless there is a radical change in policies, foreign and domestic.

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