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[Bedford Roughyed]

The word on the street (OK...twitter...) is that HM Government has asked the press to follow a D Notice on the latest batch of Wikileaks leaks. Must be some juicy stuff in there as a D notice is generally not issued often and they have direct implications to national security.

(A D Notice is a non legally binding agreement between the press and government, the understanding being that the press will go along with them as long as they are only used in the most extreme circumstances).

[JohnM]

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[Bedford Roughyed]

http://www.dailymail...ns-Britain.html

Doesn't matter if the press print it, it will be on the web to everyone.

[bowes]

Is this out now?

And is it banned from discussion on here when it is or would it be okay?

Sounds like most of it will be diplomats slagging off their host countries more than anything. Though the US support for Kurdish separatists they have admitted before this is very interesting. Not quite sure why

[Bedford Roughyed]

Is this out now?

And is it banned from discussion on here when it is or would it be okay?

Sounds like most of it will be diplomats slagging off their host countries more than anything. Though the US support for Kurdish separatists they have admitted before this is very interesting. Not quite sure why

Not out yet.

There is no reason why it can't be discussed. A D notice is just the government asking the press not to publish a story, its all very 'old school tie'.

[Li0nhead]

Not out yet.

There is no reason why it can't be discussed. A D notice is just the government asking the press not to publish a story, its all very 'old school tie'.

I'd say its more 'keep shut about this and we will give you some better stuff later' mutual back scratching.

[bendyas]

It's in the public interest so they should print away.

I wonder if the allegations against the Wiki bloke and the pending release are linked at all?

[amh]

wonder how long before a 'gate' is added or is that out of date now, and everything will have a wiki added?
latest from BBC

bit more

Edited by amh, 28 November 2010 - 07:50 PM.

[sam]

where's cerise et blanche or whatever he/she is/was called?

[Bedford Roughyed]

A few republican commentators are suggesting that wikileaks be declared a a terrorist organisation or its workers declared enemy combatants...

[Millman]

Wonder which Royal behaved inappropriately at our expense. Prince Phillip does by default so it's probably not him as they'd not feel the need to document it.

[Shadow]

Wonder which Royal behaved inappropriately at our expense. Prince Phillip does by default so it's probably not him as they'd not feel the need to document it.

Prince Andrew according to The Torygraph

[Millman]

Prince Andrew according to The Torygraph

Ahh the Prince of golf.

[Tiny Tim]

A few republican commentators are suggesting that wikileaks be declared a a terrorist organisation or its workers declared enemy combatants...

A fair, rational and balanced response...

[waistline expansionist]

Maybe Assange and friends could dig up Obama's classified birth certificate.

[ckn]

Just been reading this story in the main papers. Very interesting and very embarrassing, no wonder they want to hush it up.

In one Daily Mail article: "The identity of the minister - who is named in the files - is being withheld for legal reasons.". In other words: "the name is there for everyone to read, everyone knows it but the legal system means we can't report things that are most likely completely true."

And, no, that doesn't mean you can reprint the name here! If none of the newspapers wants to run the risk then neither does this forum.

[bowes]

The Saudi thing is the most worrying IMO as can see backlash in the region. A few diplomats slagging politicians off is just amusing

[Shadow]

There seems to be a strange prurience about the papers reporting of it, outrage at the antics of The Duke of York but shock and horror that the Americans "Spied" on Alan Duncan, William Hague and assorted other Conservatives.
I would have thought it would be entirely reasonable for the CIA to prepare briefing information on potential government ministers in the run up to an election in one of their major trading and military partners and to think otherwise is naive in the extreme.

[Bedford Roughyed]

There seems to be a strange prurience about the papers reporting of it, outrage at the antics of The Duke of York but shock and horror that the Americans "Spied" on Alan Duncan, William Hague and assorted other Conservatives.
I would have thought it would be entirely reasonable for the CIA to prepare briefing information on potential government ministers in the run up to an election in one of their major trading and military partners and to think otherwise is naive in the extreme.

To be fair, I would be more suprised if they wasn't spying on everyone. I'd be even more suprised if we and every other nation was doing as much spying back as they was capable of!

[Steve May]

So far as I can work out there's literally nothing surprising that's come out. Various Arab countries want the US to bomb Iran, the Chinese are getting fed up with the North Koreans, Prince Andrew is a boorish prat, diplomats slag people off behind their backs just like absolutely everybody else in the world does.

I could have told you all that last week.


The best thing to come out of it is the Steve Bell cartoon in today's Guardian. The only surprising revelation is that the US government is happy to give 3 million people access to supposedly confidential documents. 3 million people. What did they think was going to happen?