Deltour is charged with theft, violating Luxembourg's professional secrecy laws, violation of trade secrets, and illegally accessing a database.
Investigators are now looking into a possible violation of legal secrets and abuse of influence, while the French legal profession is simultaneously furious over the telephone taps and what appears to be a blatant breach of lawyer-client confidentiality.
As a result, judges have now opened another legal investigation into violation of legal secrets and abuse of influence, which prompted recent police raids on the homes and offices of Herzog and the prosecutor.
Warren Hoge (NYT) BRITAIN: NEW CHARGE FOR EX-SPY -- A former British spy, David Shayler, who faces accusations of disclosing state secrets in a 1997 newspaper article, was charged with a new violation of the Official Secrets Act by passing information obtained by tapping phones.
If the information given by Ms. Druyun was proprietary, she could possibly be in violation of the Trade Secrets Act as well as other federal regulations.
"There were strict rules against officials keeping diaries," Roberts notes, but Burgis did so anyway in violation of the Official Secrets Act.
The British government had brought suit against Wright to prevent publication of his memoir Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer, claiming that it constituted a violation of the Official Secrets Act.
On 15 July, less than twelve hours before the book went on sale in the Eastern time zone, Raincoast warned The Globe and Mail newspaper that publishing a review from a Canada-based writer at midnight, as the paper had promised, would be seen as a violation of the trade secret injunction.
In particular, they said, the public needs to know more about the N.S.A.'s violations of the secret court's orders that allow bulk collection of data on Americans.
"We believe the public deserves to know more about the violations of the secret court orders that have authorized the bulk collection of Americans' phone and email records under the Patriot Act," Wyden and Udall said.
In August, a senior officer from Operation Weeting, the police phone-hacking investigation, was arrested on suspicion of disclosing unauthorized information in violation of Britain's Official Secrets Act.
