Lockerbie: The scandal of the decade?

The WikiLeaks cables offer more evidence the British government was complicit in the release of the Pan Am bomber

WikiLeaks has done terrible harm to some good people.

Yet it's also true that the leaked diplomatic cables have brought shame and embarrassment to people who could not deserve it more.

One excellent example: The defeated British Labor government has now been thoroughly caught in its lies about the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the terrorist convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988. Two hundred and fifty-nine passengers and crew were murdered in the attack, plus 11 people on the ground, who were killed by plunging wreckage.

The official story was that the decision to release al-Megrahi in August 2009 was made in Scotland and had nothing to do with London. Indeed, the story went, the Labor government in Westminster could not possibly have been more distressed by the release, after just eight years in prison, of a convicted mass murderer.

Turns out, of course, that's not the real story.