The UK press is in an uproar over the allegation that a Cabinet minister who attended a National Security Council (NSC) meeting on 23 April leaked information. A minister is believed to have contacted a journalist at the Daily Telegraph on a non-attributable basis and said that the UK government …
We have written elsewhere about what a pain in the neck having official visitors to an intelligence agency can be. Now the UK has taken this idea to an extreme. In a press release dated 7 April, Buckingham Palace revealed that heir to the throne, Prince William, had spent three …
On March 29, the day after the key ECJ ruling about citizens rights (see http://spyingtoday.com/2019/04/10/zombie-rights/), Andrew Parker, Director-General of MI5 and Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner who was responsible for the Jean Charles de Menezes killing, issued a joint statement. They said that “we do not have the resources …
Human rights took a small took backwards on 28 March. The European Court of Human Rights ruled that it is legal to arrest and detain people because of what security agencies say they “might” do. Now in some ways, this is not new law. It has already been established, for …
As part of its outreach programme to young people, GCHQ has funded an exhibition at London’s Science Museum. The exhibition is also part of GCHQ’s centenary celebrations. The exhibition will feature items celebrating GCHQ’s history together with activities designed to promote recruitment – especially of young women. The exhibition opens …