The arrest of Damian Green MP

From what I understand, Damian Green was arrested earlier this week by a team of 9 anti-terrorist officers in connection with government leaks. The reason he was arrested is may be because he (or a junior minister also arrested this week) actively tried to persuade civil servants to leak documents or actually accessed the documents themselves with the intent of leaking them.
Why this required 9 specialist anti-terror police to arrest him, I do not know. Why apparently Jacqui Smith, Gordon Brown, or anyone else for that matter didn’t know about it, I also do not know.

This article sums things up rather nicely.

Personally, I think it would be very much within the public interest to know these things without it having to be ‘leaked’. Perhaps government communications (that don’t affect security) should be publicly available for all to scrutinise, in the same way the government wants to be able to read all our communications with the IMP database.

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