Pair found guilty of leaking Bush-Blair memo

A BRITISH civil servant and an MP’s aide were convicted yesterday of leaking a classified memo about a meeting between Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W Bush.

The leak was a breach of the Official Secrets Act.

David Keogh, a cipher expert who was convicted on two counts, had admitted passing on the memo about April 2004 talks in which Mr Bush purportedly referred to bombing Arab broadcaster al-Jazeera. Keogh was accused of passing the memo to his co-defendant, Leo O’Connor, 44, who in turn handed it to his boss, Tony Clarke, then an MP who voted against Britain’s decision to join the invasion of Iraq in 2003.