A civil servant and an MP's researcher were today found guilty of leaking a secret memo detailing talks between George Bush and Tony Blair on the Iraq war.
David Keogh, a 50-year-old communications officer, passed the "extremely sensitive" memo to Leo O'Connor, 44, a researcher for the anti-war Labour MP, Anthony Clarke.
He hoped the document would find its way into the public domain and expose the US president as a "madman".
The four-page memo recorded April 2004 Oval Office talks between the two leaders on events in the city of Falluja.
Its contents were so secret that much of the trial was held behind closed doors with the press excluded.
Its contents were so secret that much of the trial was held behind closed doors with the press excluded.
The trial centred around allegations that Keogh, a communications officer in the Cabinet Office, had leaked the document to O'Connor, who left a copy in constituency papers for Mr Clarke, the former Labour MP for Northampton South, in May 2004.
Keogh told the jury he wanted it to be used by MPs to ask questions in the House of Commons and also be seen by the 2004 US Democratic presidential candidate, John Kerry.
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