[…] news event.13 Trump and classified material post-Presidency The fact that Donald Trump mishandled classified material would seem to be beyond doubt. His stashing of documents with national security classification markings – not only at his Mar-a-Lago home but elsewhere, note14 – shows a consistently loose relationship with the need for genuine secrecy. What’s also […]
[PDF file]: […] exercise the three Tube stations he imagined being bombed were those actually being bombed. Coles reports this and the conclusion of the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee that it was just a striking coincidence. It certainly was. How do we know about the Power exercise? Because Power phoned into Radio 5 Live […]
[PDF file]: […] Scottish secession from the UK and therefore of the break-up of the country, a process likely to result in the loss of our seat on the UN Security Council. The UK would be left facing profound economic and diplomatic isolation, depriving it of influence over a whole range of pressing international questions including the […]
[PDF file]: […] motorcade but failed as they had targeted the wrong car. As a result of the explosion and the ensuing chaos in which shots were fired, civilians and security police were maimed and killed.’4 At the liaison meeting with MI6 after these reports emerged, it was stated that this had been the MI6/LIFG plot in […]
[PDF file]: […] to secure this objective. Both governments made their case with press releases and presentations (including one by the US Secretary of State Colin Powell to the UN Security Council) using collections of classified documents and intelligence assessments. The problem was that Iraq did not have any WMD. UN weapons inspectors did not find any […]
[PDF file]: […] discussions that reveal only fragments of relevant information’. At the same time, he has shown no ‘willingness to learn about policy’, not even with regard to national security. (p. 139) The greatest influence on his thinking is not official briefings, but ‘Fox News and Sean Hannity’. As they put it: ‘Fox’s fierce ideological angle, […]
[PDF file]: […] 1941. A careful scrutiny of the material published, both here and abroad, suggests it is entirely possible that many prominent figures – in the military, royalty, the security services and Parliament, where Churchill lacked a majority – wanted out of the war by this point, via a compromise peace. However, as we know, rather […]
[…] exercise the three Tube stations he imagined being bombed were those actually being bombed. Coles reports this and the conclusion of the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee that it was just a striking coincidence. It certainly was. How do we know about the Power exercise? Because Power phoned into Radio 5 Live […]
[PDF file]: […] through which future funding could be channelled and deniability ensured. A specific step in enabling this course of action to be adopted came in 1949 with National Security Council Directive 10/2. This empowered the CIA to spend money on whatever or whomever it felt would be beneficial to US interests without having to explain […]
[PDF file]: […] that bedevil the US Deep State. The FBI realised it had simply blundered across an officially-sanctioned disinformation project and that it was in the interests of national security to keep it under wraps. The long and the short of which is that the ‘burned memo’ cites documents that have been comprehensively debunked by everyone […]
