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Again, it is difficult to see how Pasquill could have been expected to go through the usual whistleblowing procedures when he was questioning a policy that came from the top.
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Gun and Pasquill both say they have no regrets about what they did.
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This was a prosecution that should never have been brought, and it is an absolute scandal that Pasquill was put through the mill in this way.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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From what Pasquill unearthed it seems the British FO has learned absolutely nothing in the last 90 years.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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This was a prosecution that should never have been brought, and it is an absolute scandal that Pasquill was put through the mill in this way.
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This was a prosecution that should never have been brought, and it is an absolute scandal that Pasquill was put through the mill in this way.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Afterward the same came to be put in paper and in bookes, and vsed as ordinarie missiues, some of frendship, some of defiaunce, or as other messages of mirth: _Martiall_ was the cheife of this skil among the Latines, & at ahese days the best Epigrames we finde, & of the sharpest conceit are those that haue bene gathered among the reliques of the two muet _Satyres_ in Rome, _Pasquill_ and
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Thus we have _Pasquill of England to Martin Junior, in a countercuffe given to Martin Junior; A sound boxe on the eare for the father and sonnes, Huffe, Ruffe, and Snuffe, the three tame ruffians of the Church, who take pepper in their nose because they cannot marre
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An Old Bailey judge acquitted Pasquill in January 2008 on six charges that he breached the Official Secrets Act by making disclosures damaging to international relations by passing confidential papers to the Observer and New Statesman.
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Pasquill, who was suspended for 31 months before his sacking, believes he was dismissed for making leaks that were in the public interest.
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