The Elephant In The Room:We Are Change UK: Richard Dearlove

Sir Richard Dearlove head of MI6 from 1999 - 2004 Confronted by We Are Change Uk and MI5 Whistleblower Annie Machon at a talk entitled, Can Journalists be trusted with public security? In a leaked Downing Street memo Sir Dearlove is quoted as saying that, "the facts and intelligence are being fixed (by the US) around the policy
(of invadiing Iraq)" subsequent to his prior trip to Washington. Is this an instance in which journalists have jeopardised public security? since the contents of the memo were perhaps not what the government would have wanted made public, or does the fact that the majority of people
are unaware of this memo illustrate that there is a comfortable relationship of subservience between the media and the establishment?