[…] Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, dipped her toes into the water with a speech to Demos.11 Inter alia, amidst all the usual forelock-tugging about how wonderful our security and intelligence services are, she quoted with approval Andrew Parker, head of MI5, who said: ‘the reason why things are secret is not because……… we want […]
[PDF file]: […] Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, dipped her toes into the water with a speech to Demos12 Inter alia, amidst all the usual forelock-tugging about how wonderful our security and intelligence services are, she quoted with approval Andrew Parker, head of MI5, who said: ‘the reason why things are secret is not because……… we want […]
[PDF file]: […] to persuade a public, whose support for isolationism and keeping out of Europe’s wars was strong, that Germany and Italy presented a real threat to American values, security and its way of life. He painted a bleak and threatening picture of the international situation, arguing that it was in the US interest to turn […]
[PDF file]: […] Record Edward Snowden London: MacMillan, 2019 Citizenseven ‘I used to work for the government, but now I work for the public’, claims former CIA employee and National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden in the second sentence of recent memoir, Permanent Record. That this immodest claim is one of the opening lines tells us […]
[PDF file]: […] response really the right one when a president clearly demonstrates a determination to stay in office by any means necessary? And when Trump turned on his national security adviser, John Bolton, for potentially blowing a hole in his lying defence, how does Sopel respond? ‘You have to give it to Trump – when it […]
[PDF file]: […] resources, such as police dogs, armed officers, CCTV operators, Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) and vehicle checkpoints.’16 In the same year that Servator was launched, ‘the biggest security magazine in the UK’ quoted data from the ‘London terrorism survey’ which showed that, ‘Nearly three quarters (73 per cent) of people who live or work […]
[PDF file]: […] United States without reference to the consent of the governed as expressed through the formal political process.’ In Lofgren’s view it consists of: ‘…..a hybrid of national security and law enforcement agencies: the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Justice Department. I […]
[PDF file]: […] the London Sunday Times interviewed Montgomery in connection with the unmasking of Blunt and he said that “I knew Anthony had been interrogated in 1964 by the Security Service and I feared that my name would come up. There were other occasions when I thought it would come out and I would get the […]
[PDF file]: […] decision, because moving the Embassy had been a campaign promise. He took this decision in the face of the united opposition of the US foreign policy and security establishments. Both Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defence Secretary James Mattis warned that ‘all hell’s going to break loose’.1 According to Richard Mansbach, Trump made […]
[PDF file]: Some thoughts on The Russia Report Nick Must Ahhh yes . . . the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament’s Russia Report, the cushion on which the well-upholstered posterior of Prime Minister Boris Johnson sat for more than a year. I can only assume that year was required to deliberately introduce some comedic errors, […]
