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... developed its oversight remit, with the Government's agreement, to include examination of intelligence-related elements of the Cabinet Office including: the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC); the Assessments Staff; and the Intelligence, Security and Resilience Group. The Committee also takes evidence from the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS), part of the Ministry of Defence (MOD), which assists the Committee in respect of work within the Committee's 105 Summer 2010 remit.’ 18 In practice they cannot do much, cannot compel testimony or the production of documents, and currently appear to have no investigative staff. What the ISC does do is write reports with material given to it by the various agencies. What the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-094.pdf
... Hughes names the names) met and worked out how to divvy-up their states' military assets. The rationale for this? Nothing more sophisticated than the usual belief that the private is better than the public; in this case, that the private sector could implement change faster than the state, could shake-up the rigid bureaucracies of the Pentagon and MOD to create the new, dynamic forces for the rapidly changing strategic environments (etc. etc., boilerplate, boilerplate). And hey, if we make a load of money in the process, so much the better. So began a series of deals in which the taxpayer got Page 150 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 screwed ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-149.pdf
... September 2009 under the subhead 'Desire Petroleum tows rig to oil-rich Falklands' began: 'A British oil explorer is raising £20m-£30m from shareholders as it prepares to start drilling in the Falkland Islands, where it believes up to 3bn barrels of oil and gas may be recoverable.’ UFO tourists? In 1993, an RAF Wing Commander lobbied MoD officials about the need for a properly funded study of UFOs. He told them: 'The national security implications [of UFOs] are considerable. We have many reports of strange objects in the skies and have never investigated them.’ He added: 'If the sightings are of devices not of earth then their purpose needs to be established as a ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-103.pdf
... that it is the pivot of all military careers and a great deal of decision-making. Any military officer who has ambitions, has to keep close to the Pentagon, because he needs to serve in NATO. The US and the UK have dominated serious appointments in NATO for years, for this reason. It is the driving priority of the MOD to keep it that way. They do not think in terms of national interest, but of both MOD interest and the American interest.' And talking about the bombing during the war after the break-up Yugoslavia, Young comments: 'Cook....always had to be asked for target approval for each new bombing raid. Sometimes he tried ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 35 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-07.htm
... inspections. Kelly briefed DIS and MI6; worked with the UN monitoring chemical and biological weapons; and was part of the so-called 'Rockingham Cell', described by Scott Ritter as a 'secretive intelligence activity buried inside the DIS which dealt with Iraqi weapons of mass destruction'.(19) Comfortable consorting with the press (Kelly also attended an MOD senior officers TV course at Wilton Park), we are told by Nick Rufford of The Sunday Times that Kelly had sometimes been 'an undercover man for the intelligence services'.(20) Unsurprising, perhaps, that veteran journalist Tom Mangold should claim Kelly's death was investigated by 'Special Branch, MI5; MI6 had a man present and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-03.htm
... it is widely discomfited by the Iraq War as a potentially illegal occupation (not so the role in Afghanistan) working alongside 'gung-ho' Americans. It comes home angry at a humiliation that is not of its own making, with its own 'stab in the back' legend. British officers were certainly open about their situation before withdrawal despite desperate MoD attempts to restrict their communications with the outside world. The view of the military in Southern Iraq was that the Americans would now fare no better: 'Basra is a hell-hole because we do not have enough troops to control the city.' This same officer added: 'We have been left to hold the flag while politicians enjoy their holidays ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-03.htm
... security presence in Whitehall for an LFI event in April that caused the re-routing of a march to the Cenotaph of retired British service personnel seeking equity in pensions. Hundreds of veterans, some in wheelchairs, had assembled by the Ministry of Defence for their dignified lobbying of MPs, but a Lord Levy LFI fundraiser at the Banqueting Suite between the MoD and the Cenotaph was where the heavy police and Community Security Trust presence took precedence. LFI guest of honour was Gordon Brown. Seen scuttling up Whitehall to the party was MacShane's fellow LFI policy council member Nick Brown, the still baby-faced former engineering union leader Lord Bill Jordan, and former Labour party chairman Lord Clarke of Hampstead. Eric ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-07.htm
... Michael Clarke, 'Doing the Wrong Thing in Afghanistan: Depleted Uranium: The Definitive Moral Paradox' at <http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/> and Leuren Moret, 'Depleted Uranium is WMD' at <http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0809-33.htm>. There must be special section of Hell reserved for the lawyers who work for the MOD and US Army. Last| Contents| Next ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-29.htm
... Smith'.( Lobster 39). Defence procurement is frequently underhanded. In the US last year, Congressman Randy Cunningham was jailed for eight years for picking up over one million pounds from defence contractors and others in exchange for steering government contracts their way and other favours (The Times, 4 March 2006). Similarly, senior British MOD civil servant Michael Hale was jailed for two years in April this year for accepting bribes from an American company (Daily Telegraph, 17 April 2007). The construction industry can be equally corrupt, the most recent example being the 'more than 40 dawn raids carried out in four countries by police investigating alleged Mafia involvement in EU security and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-31.htm
... the Ministry of Defence confirmed the presence of one of the cover names, 4 Field Survey Troop, Royal Engineers, but denied the presence of the other, Northern Ireland Training and Advisory Team. Other than confirming that 4 Field Survey Troop were in Northern Ireland when and where Holroyd said they were, no further information was forthcoming, the MOD replying, through junior minister Roger Freeman, that 'Detailed information on this unit, which is not now deployed in the Province, is not available.'( [11]) Fast forward to 2006 and researchers in the national archives have discovered a 1974 army briefing paper titled 'Army Plain Clothes Patrols in Northern Ireland'. The briefing ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 44 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-24.htm
