Since this is not a case about potentially offensive cartoons, it's gotten no attention. But Denmark is trying to punish a newspaper for publishing the truth --
The editor and two reporters from one of Denmark's main newspapers have gone on trial charged with publishing secret intelligence about Iraqi weapons.
In articles published in 2004 they quoted from analysis by a Danish intelligence agent, Frank Grevil.
His report, written before the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, concluded that there was no evidence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq.
One person has already gotten jail time --
Former intelligence officer Major Frank Soeholm Grevil was sentenced last year to four months in jail for leaking the documents to the reporters.
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen supported the US-led invasion of Iraq and told parliament he was convinced former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was in possession of WMD.
We'll update as right-wing bloggers take note of this suppression.
UPDATE: Powerline's Hindrocket does take note, but only via a dispute with a second hand account of the trial, and slots it into a larger theme about media rehabilitation of Saddam Hussein.
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