Slate: The Bush Bombshell - Did the president propose to take out Al Jazeera? By Christopher�Hitchens

The Bush Bombshell - Did the president propose to take out Al Jazeera? By Christopher�Hitchens

Tomorrow morning, in a court in London, two men will appear to face charges under Britain's Official Secrets Act. The first man, David Keogh, a former employee of the Cabinet Office, is accused of unlawfully handing a confidential memorandum to the second man, Leo O'Connor, a researcher for a former Labor member of Parliament, Tony Clarke.[...]The memorandum [...] describes a meeting at the White House on April 16, 2004, between President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair. At that meeting [...] Bush mooted the idea of taking out the headquarters of Al Jazeera in Doha, Qatar.

I remember reading about this, and thinking that it could not be true. Even Bush could not be that arrogant. But now, after what we have seen recently, with the "Spygate", I am not so sure anymore...