MI6 Secret Intelligence Service

PETER OBORNE: Tony Blair looks haunted, but with new claims that he was behind torture and war...

One can only fear for Tony Blair after last Thursday's European summit at Brussels. For the truth is that evidence continues to amass that, under the Blair premiership, the British state was responsible, at times, for some...

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The war against evidence of torture continues.

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...

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Vatican prepares for extraterrestrial disclosure

The Vatican has just completed a five day conference on astrobiology where scientists convened to discuss the detection and implications of extraterrestrial life. A major driving force behind the conference was the Director of...

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Secret services allowed to hide evidence

• 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,...

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Will MI6 finally come in from the cold?

The man who brought us The Meaning of Tingo is at it again, closer to home. Adam Jacot de Boinod’s previous excursion among unlikely foreign words turned at times into a wild Boojum chase because the meanings claimed for some...

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U.N. Cover-Up on Iran?

Israel's United Nations ambassador, Gabriela Shalev, accurately described the Islamic Republic of Iran, in her remarks at Yeshiva University last week, as a "convergence of terrible elements," including aggressive nuclear...

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Rhodri Marsden: Should my employer be allowed to snoop on me online?

Each week turns up new warnings of the dangers of revealing too much about yourself online. It's not long since the wife of the current head of MI6 unwittingly posted sensitive details of their London residence, while tabloid...

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MI6 chiefs to be quizzed in Iraq war probe

From ANI London, Nov. 17: The current and former chiefs of the UK's intelligence service, MI6, will be the first witnesses to testify and give evidence in the official inquiry into the Iraq war. Sir John Scarlett, who retired...

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SIS puts universities on WMD alert

Updated at 7:02pm on 17 November 2009 The Security Intelligence Service (SIS) has been criticised for putting universities on alert about technology associated with weapons of mass destruction. The Tertiary Education Union says...

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Government under fire on interrogation

The group of senior MPs and peers responsible for scrutinising the activities of the intelligence agencies has sharply criticised the government for failing to hand over the guidelines provided to MI5 and MI6 officers for...

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