Spilling government secrets: not such a good idea

The British Foreign Office already began to tear its collective hair out over Christopher Meyer’s DC CONFIDENTIAL. So now that Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, is about to publish his memoirs, they’re getting ready to crack down even more by threatening legal action for “breach of confidence or of Crown copyright”, the Bookseller reports.

Murray’s book, MURDER IN SAMARKAND, slated for a July publication date in the UK, accuses the government of being complicit in human rights abuses. “It contains proof that the government has been obtaining intelligence from torture, and that Jack Straw approved it,” Murray said.

The author is adamant the book will be published, but will that be the case? Remember the story of HOUSE OF BUSH, HOUSE OF SAUD, which was unceremoniously pulled from publication by Random House before a smaller press picked it up.

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