Secrets not safe

My jaw dropped when I heard Andy Coulson at the Leveson Inquiry, saying that he “may have had” unsupervised access to top secret intelligence material while working for David Cameron, even though he didn’t have the appropriate security clearance (your report, 11 May).

He also said he’d attended meetings of the National Security Council, where presumably material in even higher security classifications would have been discussed.

When I was an RAF officer, I’d have been arrested and charged under the Official Secrets Act if I’d given friends or colleagues access to classified material they didn’t have security clearance to see.

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The penalty for such an offence is normally a substantial prison sentence. Yet here we have the Prime Minister allowing one of his cronies access to material in the highest and most sensitive security categories.

Are we going to see David Cameron in the dock of the Old Bailey for this? We certainly ought to.

Doug Maughan

Menteith View

Dunblane