Will WikiLeaks unravel the American 'secret government'?

[Peter Lemkin]

I particularly liked the cable that reveled how Whitehall "mandarins" told the US to ignore the duly elected Prime Minister's decision about reducing Trident fleet and revealed the name of the person involved in briefing the press on it.

Delightful.

Last time I checked, I thought that passing on critical information to a foreign power was known as "espionage" and was punishable under the UK's secrecy statutes.

The cable was dated September 2009.

Which might mean that it has a meaningful connection to the then opposition Conservative Party's pledge of fealty to the US made during the election run up.

It seems to me that laws governing espionage, betrayal and so on have be shown to be entirely meaningless for all intents and purposes.

It also shows that the UK are, throughout its entire political and establishment fabric a US pawn, governed from Washington through its nominated "Consul" in Whitehall.

And I bet not one major UK political party will raise an eyebrow.

Would make a great Monty Python skit....on the 'Dead Parrot' theme.....My PM is dead!...no he isn't, he' just sleeping or out of the loop.....etc... NB - that leak and a few others will not help poor JA in his court hearings....if they are as much on the up and up as are the 'lap-poodle' backroom political stuff! David, David, "espionage!, betrayal!" Come, come now....surely this can all be straitened out in a smoke filled back room in Whitehall. The laws are theirs to bend or break, as they please. Money and Power and Fidelity to them are the real laws followed.......it seems