UK Intelligence Agencies

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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Check Point Full Disk Encryption R72 Achieves UK Government Certification To Verify Security...

Published 20th November 2009 Encryption solution’s CCTM accreditation confirms suitability for mission-critical deployments in both Government and private sector 19 November 2009 – Check Point Software Technologies, the...

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News: GCHQ runs ad campaign in Xbox Live

The UK government intelligence agency in charge of signals analysis and information for the country's armed forces, GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters), is to promote various career opportunities within 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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Government signs up to recruit on Xbox

The Government Communications Headquarters has signed up to be the first organisation to run recruitment advertising on Xbox LIVE. The deal which has been brokered by agency Massive and Microsoft Advertising will promote career...

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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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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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Nuclear Waste trains and the Camden Bio Hazard Lab. The ultimate dirty accident.

There are plans to build a high level virus containment facility in Camden. MI5 have voiced fears over safety around the lab [Evening Standard] and scientists from the NIMR have voiced security fears. Residents have also voiced...

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Myki 'will be a tracking device'

VICTORIA'S new myki smartcard will function as an unofficial tracking device, a civil liberties group has warned. Liberty Victoria has written to Attorney-General Rob Hulls with its concerns, particularly surrounding the card's...

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