... nobbled by the government into censoring their own judgement in the first place. The immediate question is, when did MI5 know that the Americans had changed their interrogation techniques ; when did they know it and were they complicit in torture in ... In a flurry of goverment reaction, Gordon Brown has annnounced that MI5’s revised guidelines will be published soon; the Foreign secretary has ...

... unlawfully detained and tortured in Pakistan with the complicity of MI5. Baroness Scotland is expected to decide this week ... Rights Watch, said he has been given evidence from Pakistani officials that MI5 and MI6 officers knew about the torture but continued ... indirectly — in interrogations. Allegations of complicity in the torture of Britons have become MI5’s biggest crisis of recent years. ...

A fascinating story about WW11 UK MI5 papers show Britain feared Nazi 'spyclists ... said Christopher Andrew, author of the official history of MI5, Britain's domestic espionage service. ... II, members of the group visited Britain, and MI5 documents released Monday by the National Archives ... helped the Nazis map their invasion routes. From MI5 papers show Britain feared Nazi ...

... of Appeal decided to reinstate a judge's criticism of MI5 in a landmark torture ruling. The judgment in question, handed ... custody of Binyam Mohamed, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, and what exactly MI5 knew of it. That ruling, on February 10, brought a ... Lord Neuberger, Master of the Rolls, questioned the honesty of MI5 officers had been cut after protests from a Foreign Office lawyer. ...

... a potential informer. He had given an interview to the Derry Journal claiming that MI5 had been continuously harassing him to give them information, a claim his ... this week has been New Labour circling the wagons to protect MI5 since a judge effectively called them a bunch of liars who were ... spies’ probity and high ethical standards. MI5’s second largest facility is at Palace Barracks, ...

... - I'm sure MI5 can commission its own research and ISPs don't need MI5's money to do their own market research either - but then that's what the music industry lobbyists have been suggesting may be ... , in spite of the Bill provisions, and would use "undetectable methods" to do so. Whether MI5 helped pay for the survey is not clear. For the record, it is not clear whether or ...

A father who was stripped, bound and shot through the head had claimed just weeks before his death that he had been approached by MI5. It has emerged that in November 2009 Kieran Doherty gave an interview to the Derry Journal newspaper in which he claimed he had been approached by the security service. The revelation came to light as the hunt for the 31-year-old Brandywell man’s killers ...

... mistreatment of suspected terrorists, the former head of the country's domestic spy agency, MI5, said Tuesday. Eliza Manningham-Buller, who retired in 2007 and is now a member of the ... many of their own people." Manningham-Buller spent 33 years in British intelligence, and was head of MI5 between 2002 and 2007. "The government did lodge protests and I'm not going to say any ...

“As befits Britain’s most senior spy, Jonathan Evans is noted in Whitehall for being cool under fire. That quality will be tested this week when MI5’s director-general learns whether his service is about to be engulfed by one of the biggest crises in its 100-year history.” Full story The Times, 21st February 2010 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Lord Neuberger is one of the UKs senior judges. Yet they've been trying to shut him up. Foreign Secretary David Miliband rejected the suggestion MI5 had lied. Gordon Brown says: "We condemn torture without reservation. We do not torture, and we do not ask others to do so on our behalf," he added. WTF is going on with our country where senior politicians can just lie and ...

... matter. In effect, he uses the same language and makes the same observations – but he confines his remarks to the specifics of Mr Mohamed’s case – rather than a broader attack on MI5’s reputation and respect for human rights. He also removes the reference to “previous form”. This is the final version of Paragraph 168: “The Security Services had made it ...

The family of Ciaran Doherty said he had been under "continuous harassment" from the British secret service (MI5) in the months before he was shot last week. Mr Doherty's body was found on a border road on Wednesday last week, bound and stripped and shot twice in the head in a manner associated with the IRA execution of an informer. In a brief statement on Thursday night, the ...

This is beyond credence, quite frankly... Ex-MI5 head: US hid torture tactics from UK Manningham-Buller has previous experience of interrogations. Her experience tells her that information is very difficult to extract. She finds that the Americans have had extraordinary success in their "efforts"... And she accepted the American explanation that Binyam Mohamed was keen to brag of ...

... ;s top spies as being a stumbling block to the bill's passage -- worried, apparently, that creating a Great Firewall of Britain will make it harder for spies to spy on naughty sites (someone should tell MI5 about Ipredator, the excellent proxy service from the Pirate Bay; after all, that's the same proxy that everyone else in Britain is likely to use to get at the blocked sites if the BPI ...

From Foreign Policy: The History of the Honey Trap Five lessons for would-be James Bonds and Bond girls -- and the men and women who would resist them. MI5 is worried about sex. In a 14-page document distributed last year to hundreds of British banks, businesses, and financial institutions, titled "The Threat from Chinese Espionage," the famed British security service described a wide ...