The Guardian (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Ministers refuse to release details of five incidents last year The government is refusing to provide details on five separate security breaches at Britain's nuclear power stations last year. The breaches have prompted accusations that ministers are suppressing damaging information at a time when they are attempting to sell the idea of more nuclear power stations. Earlier this month, 10 new sites...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you've been following the Blue America PAC at all, you may already be aware that we've decided that we won't be endorsing any candidates for the House in 2010 unless they are genuinely enthusiastic about passing John Larson's Fair Elections Now Act ( HR 1826 ). We're not asking for some unenforceable pledge; we want nothing less than heartfelt enthusiasm. Right now Larson has 117 co-sponsors from...
aangirfan (Free subscription) | yesterday
Miliband, who is Jewish. On 20 November 2009, The Independent told us that Britain knew the CIA was torturing the innocent British detainee Binyam Mohamad. In 2002, secret reports, sent between MI5 and the CIA, made clear that the American torturers were using practices which included waterboarding. On 20 November 2009, Britain's High Court revealed a US memo reporting that Britain's Binyam Mohamed...
Obsolete (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
How then goes our glorious government's consistent attempts to stop any primary evidence emerging of our collusion in, if not open acceptance of the use of torture when it came to interrogating suspects caught up in TWAT (the war against terror)? This week brought rulings to please both sides. Yesterday, for the sixth straight time in a row, the high court rejected the claims of the Foreign Office...
Joystiq (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The Guardian reports that British Intelligence is looking for a few good men. Specifically, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is running ads on the Xbox 360 dashboard and within Xbox games to recruit new members. The GCHQ, which works with both MI5 and MI6 (yes, that MI6 ), seeks to recruit young people with an affinity for "quick thinking, problem solving and team work."...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
GCHQ to run ad campaign within Xbox Live online games to attract 18- to 34-year-olds to its ranks Government intelligence organisation GCHQ is to run an ad campaign within Xbox Live online games, including Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed, to attract quick-thinking 18- to 34-year-olds to its ranks. The campaign marks the first time that GCHQ, which reports to the foreign secretary, David Miliband,...
The Lockerbie Case (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
[The following is an excerpt from a review on the Morning Star website by Brendan Montague of the recently-published history of MI5 The Defence of the Realm by Christopher Andrew.] The secret service has enjoyed billions of pounds of funding since its formation 100 years ago and would like us to think that it has hired the finest young men and occasional woman from Oxbridge. However, an agent with...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Britain knew that American agents were using barbaric torture techniques on terror suspects, including British resident Binyam Mohamed, it emerged yesterday. Secret reports sent between MI5 and the CIA in 2002 reveal that the American security services were using torture practices which included waterboarding, facial slaps and stress positions.
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
President Barack Obama said he won't set a new deadline for closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison, but does expect the facility to shut down sometime next year. The administration no longer feels it can meet the January 2010 deadline Obama set for its closure soon after taking office. Obama says he isn't disappointed about missing the deadline, but has realized that things move slower in Washington...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
• Ruling prompted by UK Guantánamo torture cases • Lawyers decry attack on basic principle of law MI5, MI6 and the police will be able to withhold evidence from defendants and their lawyers in civil cases for the first time, the high court ruled today. In a move that has widespread implications for open justice, Mr Justice Silber agreed with the security and intelligence agencies...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
MI5 and MI6 have been given permission to hold hearings behind closed doors into their alleged complicity in the treatment of seven former detainees in Guantanamo Bay.
JURIST (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
[JURIST] The British High Court ruled Wednesday that the government may withhold evidence from seven claimants suing UK intelligence services MI5 and MI5 for their roles in alleged torture at Guantanamo Bay. The court ruled that the agencies can rely on the evidence in their defense without disclosing it to the claimants. The ruling marks a departure from the "public interest immunity" procedure,...
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Ex-MI5 agent sues spy agency for right to publish memoirs, and newspaper for publishing his name
BBC News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
MI5 and MI6 have won the first stage of a legal battle to stop secrets being disclosed in a case brought by ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Court ruling with widespread implications for open justice condemned by lawyer as 'outrage' MI5, MI6 and the police will be able to withhold evidence from defendants and their lawyers in civil cases for the first time, the high court ruled today. In a move that has widespread implications for open justice, Mr Justice Silber agreed with the security and intelligence agencies that "secret government...
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carrolltrust | 05/11/2009
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