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almh · 10-09-2009, 04:13 PM

Definitely a last resort. And I'd imagine that if it was that big a story they were about to leak, they would have been swarmed by people waving the documents they signed saying 'I promise not to tell anyone ever about this,' so not anyway. Up to 14 years in prison is a pretty long sentence - why would they want to spill? And I've just read that it's not a defence to say "that the disclosure is in the national or public interest," so that puts a damper on things. And the whole point about the secret services are that they are secret - the general public has very little idea about what they can or cannot do - so it must be very easy for them to come up with a suitable defence, because really, we don't know much about them.