Posts tagged UK

Report: NSA Kept File On Tony Blair’s ‘Private Life’ And Intercepted Iraqi President’s ‘Pillow Talk’

http://thinkprogress.org…
Think Progress by Matt Corley
In October, ABC News reported that despite President Bush’s promises that the National Security Administration’s warrantless wiretapping program was aimed only at terrorists, the NSA frequently listened to and transcribed the private phone calls of Americans abroad. The network’s report was based on whistleblower interviews with two former military intercept operators.

Link Love [21 November 2008]

1. British National Party membership and contacts list, 2007-2008…
British National Party (BNP) membership and contacts list. The BNP is a “far right” party, whose members are banned by the UK civil service from a number of government occupations. 12,801 individuals are represented. Contains contact details of all or nearly all party members and some other [...]

Link Love [19 November 2008]

1. Plame, Wilson to take CIA leak lawsuit to Supreme Court…
Former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, plan to take their civil lawsuit against Bush administration officials to the Supreme Court after a federal circuit court refused to rehear the case on Monday.

2. Crossing to Mexico for Hospitals and [...]

Link love [12 November 2008]

1. Utah Legislators Call Mormon Leadership’s Bluff on LGBT Rights…
A group of at least five Utah legislators have asked the Mormon leadership to join their call for state legislation protecting LGBT rights to hospital visitation, medical care, fair housing, inheritance, and non-discrimination in employment, based on a statement from the Church itself last week that [...]

New heroin crisis threatens Britain, EU drug agency report says

http://www.guardian.co.uk…
Guardian
Alan Travis
A glut of opium on the world market fuelled by a record Afghan harvest threatens a new heroin crisis in Britain, the European Union drug agency warns today.

Driver of De Menezes train thought police were terrorists

http://www.guardian.co.uk…
Peter Walker and agencies
Tuesday November 04 2008
The driver of the underground train on which Jean Charles de Menezes was killed believed the police who shot dead the young Brazilian were terrorists, an inquest heard today.
Quincy Akpesiri Oji ran across live tracks into a tunnel to escape from the police, who he believed were “fanatics” shooting [...]

Questions 10 [3 November 2008]

How Did McCain Escape Expulsion from the Senate?…
John McCain, according to a revelatory article in The New Republic, was almost certainly the source for illegal leaks during the Keating Five investigation — leaks that, if proven, would have been cause for his expulsion from the United States Senate for perjury. Additionally, according to [...]

De Menezes officer investigated over admitting deleting evidence

http://www.timesonline.co.uk…
h/t: sott.net
Adam Fresco
The Times
Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:06 UTC
A senior police surveillance officer is under investigation after he admitted yesterday that he deleted evidence relating to the shooting in July 2005 of Jean Charles de Menezes.

MoD loses hard drive holding military personnel data

http://www.guardian.co.uk…
Portable drive holding private details of 100,000 army, navy and RAF personnel belonged to MoD IT contractor, EDS
Downing Street has described the loss of data from a Ministry of Defence computer hard drive, which contained the private details of armed forces personnel, as “regrettable”.
“The MoD police are currently investigating this regrettable incident and will take [...]

MI5 computer with anti-terror files stolen through open window

http://www.telegraph.co.uk…
Urmee Khan
Telegraph
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:45 UTC
A computer containing MI5 anti-terror files has been stolen from a house after a window was left open.
The burglar stole the computer after climbing in through an open window of a house rented by the security services.
Officers believe it was an opportunist theft and that the house in Greater [...]

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