LIVERPOOL MP Peter Kilfoyle could be jailed for two years after admitting passing on secret details of George Bush's threat to bomb al-Jaazeera TV station.
The offence appears to be a clear breach of the Official Secrets Act, which forbids a person from revealing any information "disclosed to them by a Crown servant without lawful authority".
A civil servant and another MP's researcher are already being prosecuted over the leak of the information, contained in a transcript of President Bush's meeting with Tony Blair in April 2004.
The maximum sentence for breaching section five of the 1989 Official Secrets Act is two years behind bars.
But, yesterday, a defiant Mr Kilfoyle, the MP for Liverpool Walton, said he had no regrets for trying to reveal "just what George Bush stands for".
And he confidently predicted the government would be forced to drop all the prosecutions rather than face the embarrassment of the document being discussed in open court.
Mr Kilfoyle said: "I believed the document should be made public because it is a matter of national interest. It does not imperil anybody and it reveals the kind of person we are dealing with.
"I don't think I will be prosecuted. The government will be very foolish if it proceeds with these charges - or brings new ones against me."
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