[…] Campbell and his people in the CIC preparing the second ‘intelligence-based dossier’ which was endorsed by Colin Powell at the UN. On 5 February 2003 Andrew Gilligan, BBC Defence Correspondent, and formerly at the Sunday Telegraph, announced that he had received a leaked document from Defence Intelligence staff – i.e. the military – which […]
[…] B. S. A. Tahir, Griffin was named as a middleman for a project to create a machine shop in Libya. Griffin subsequently won libel cases against the BBC (26) and The Guardian27 for alleging that he had been knowingly involved in assisting the Libyan regime in developing its nuclear programme. He claimed complete ignorance […]
[…] Washington years have eased them up the career tree back in London. Michael White, still busy dissing any possibility of political conspiracy to his Guardian readers and BBC listeners despite being a Washington hack during President Reagan’s IranContra years, is probably the worst of them in this regard. But his old Guardian colleague, Jim […]
[…] thousand years later people still understand them to reflect reality. Gilligan would probably not want to be seen as a latter-day biblical evangelist but he (and the BBC) suffered mainly because of what philosophers might call a category error. Academics and lawyers (including but not only Tony Blair and Lord Hutton) examined what he […]
[…] BBC1 and BBC2 showed on their main evening news bulletins a rather lengthy piece concerning America’s latest development in weaponry — the non-lethal weapons concept. David Shukman, BBC Defence Correspondent, interviewed (Retired) U.S. Army Colonel John B. Alexander and Janet Morris, two of the main proponents of the concept. (1) The concept of non-lethal […]
[…] survivor’, op. cit. Jonathan Dimbleby interview, op. cit. Comments made by Rees-Jones in an interview on France 2 television. (Quoted in ‘Paparazzi’s role in Diana accident’ on BBC News Website at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/wales/newsid_707000/707445.shmtl) Larry King Live interview, op. cit. Tim Reid, ‘Al Fayed accuses Duke of plotting to murder Diana’, The Times 23 November 1999. […]
[…] Gurwin p. 193 Sterling p. 142 Italian TV pictures of this – including the piles of guns and bags of (it was said) heroin, were shown on BBC 2’s Newsnight. At the time (innocently) I assumed that a story of such magnitude would appear shortly in the British press. It didn’t and I forgot […]
[…] British Jihad: Collusion, conspiracy and cover-up in Northern Ireland Paul Larkin Belfast: Beyond the Pale, 2004, £10.99 p/back Larkin was an investigative journalist and producer for the BBC in Northern Ireland and this book is based round the TV programmes he made there about the paramilitaries and the British state in the late 1980s […]
[…] Mercier Press, Cork and Dublin, 1991 Martin Dillon is a freelance journalist in Northern Ireland with a long career behind him: editor and radio presenter for the BBC in Northern Ireland, co-author of the Penguin Special, Political Murder In Northern Ireland (1973), and author of a biography of Second World War SAS hero Lt. […]
[…] March 1999 http://www.cyber-rights.org/reports/dti99.htm http://www.epic.org/ This document is no longer on the Labour website, but can be found in the ‘resource list’ at http://www.liberty.org.uk/cacib/ http://www.dti.gov.uk/CII/ana27p.html Computing, January 1999 BBC News February 20 1998: ‘UK Govt dithers on encryption regulation’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/encryption/newsid _58000/58499.stm Para 84, Interception Capabilities 2000, April 1999, working document of the STOA panel of […]
