From: Adam 

George Sherwood wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2006 06:53:10 +0100, Adam wrote:
>
>> George Sherwood wrote:
>>> On Mon, 15 May 2006 20:53:18 +0100, Adam wrote:
>>>
>>>> Robert Comer wrote:
>>>>> Why am I not surprised...
>>>>>
>>>> Iron Rice bowl. PRC is the thought leader. Get used to it.
>>>>
>>> They don't use wiretaps in the UK to catch criminals?
>>>
>>> George
>> Not often wrt journos coz journos have the power to make probs for the
>> pols & the pols have the power to make probs for civil servants.
>>
> What?  How about the "Official State Secrets Act"?  I have seen many
> journos threatened under that.  It is actually much stricter then what we
> have here.
>
> George

Yup. But it depends wrt a leak.

I suggest you try & download the Yes minister where hacker decides to
investigate a leak.

Governments work off leaks. They are an essential lubricant in the
democratic process.

Adam

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