'Your right for the truth doesn't trump our right to keep our jobs or be free from prosecution and embarrassment.'

and he has the nerve to mention integrity lol!

The Guardian has good coverage, with a lot of pissed off opinions on the right sidebar.

Is there any sense to this:

1.the Iraq minutes must be kept secret but:

2.Lost in Lagos? The mystery of Jack Straw and the Nigerian scammers

Nigerian scammers hscked into his Hotmail and sent out a phoney money request.

_{I feel the American worker has been sacrificed to the capitalist idols in the ancient Mayan fashion. - Sue Lamb, NYT reader}

Actually it forbids the domestic publication of British embarrassment. Not very effectively, either. I remember a street map of London selling for fifteen pounds with a free copy of "Spycatcher" included with every purchase. That lasted about twelve hours, but even in the 80's the British could read about British secrets more easily than Russians could read forbidden Russian poets.

We have the same delusion in America. They tried to classify Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier, despite the fact that Mach's work was widely published and a giant boom over a gossipy air base could only result in 1) a well-attended public military funeral or 2) a pilot showing up at the local bar and not having to pay for his own drinks. Even better was the episode where the authors of the RSA algorithm were yanked out of the customs queue, fresh from having presented their paper at an academic conference in Tel Aviv, and warned not to discuss their work with non-American citizens. Apart from the arrival/departure confusion and the thousands of pre-existing violations (complete with photocopied mathematical proofs), there were at least one and a half reasons why that wasn't going to work.

It's not like somebody's going to register JackStrawDiscussions.com and turn the whole thing into a well-documented term paper complete with timelines and embedded video of public announcements. That sort of thing doesn't happen to secret memoranda in Downing Street.