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Home Secretary hints that leaks may have breached national security

The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show this morning appeared to drop a heavy hint that the four leaks documented in recent newspaper reports might not have been the worst of what the alleged Conservative mole within the Home Office may have passed to Tory frontbencher Damian Green.

Repeatedly asked whether she should apologise for police action against Damian Green, Jacqui Smith pointedly refused to do so and said that the investigation was not about an opposition politician using leaked information to embarrass the Government, but about a “systematic series of leaks from a department dealing with some of the most sensitive and confidential information in government”. She also told Mr Marr that he didn’t know what had been leaked.

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