UK police warning to media over diplomat's leaked memos stirs anger

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I don't know the legal details of this kind of thing, but the newspaper in question seems somewhat selective in its freedom to publish. It holds two potentially juicy stories, the secret opinions of an ambassador about the US president and the name of someone in government who revealed state secrets. Which is more in the public interest to publish? This is not a normal whistleblower situation where someone is revealing illegal or wrongful behavior. The reveled secret was of a guy doing his job as expected. Is there any need to protect the person who leaked the secret?

Basu is an idiot. You cannot prosecute a newspaper for publishing a story, you prosecute the ones who gave them the story, if that breaks the law. Who ever gave Darroch's reports to the Mail on Sunday has broken the Official Secrets Act and will get prison time.