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... universalist and contemptuous of all forms of socialism except the Catholic version, is now in play. The elements may disagree on gay issues and on women's rights but they agree on a lot more. Alongside this development, the thesis continues, a class of pan-European investigating judges is also emerging. It operates as an agent for a security and law enforcement programme that will come to serve the interests of the new order even if its relationship to it is currently ambiguous. Investigating judges Let us start with the investigating judge movement. It is a European-wide extension of developments that took place in Italy in the 1970s and 1980s in response to the corrupt politics of the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 114 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-03.htm
... .uk (Issue 44) Winter 2002 Last | Contents | Next Issue 44 Web update Jane Affleck Many thanks to Terry Hanstock for contributions. Comments and contributions to 101521.3515@compuserve.com Shayler case and human rights David Shayler went on trial at the Old Bailey in October/ November 2002 for disclosing information and documents relating to security and intelligence, under s1(1 ) and 4(1 ) of the Official Secrets Act 1989. During the trial he was not able to utilise a public interest defence (previously ruled out by House of Lords, see below); in addition, PII certificates signed by the Home and Foreign secretaries prevented any disclosures relating to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 111 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-wb.htm
... through the US Congress in record time and signed by President Bush on 26 Oct. 2001, greatly expands the ability of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to tap phones, monitor email and internet traffic and conduct other forms of surveillance in pursuit of terrorists. A key feature is its provisons requiring increased sharing of information among law enforcement and national security personnel at all levels of government. Articles on this legislation: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47814-2001Oct24.html www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33340-2001 Nov3. html UK: Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Bill www.parliament.the- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 109 - 01 Dec 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue42/lob42-wb.htm
... which oversees the implementation of CALEA, delayed its implementation until June 2000. A further illustration of the concerns over advancing technology is given by the Walsh Report, Review of Policy Issues Relating to Encryption Technologies, prepared in 1996 by the Australian Attorney General's department, and written by Gerard Walsh, a former Deputy Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO, equivalent to our MI5). The report was suppressed by the Australian government, which later released a censored version. An uncensored copy was obtained and posted on the net by Electronic Frontiers Australia. The report refers to the looming problem of encryption, and that 'loss of real-time communications of their targets ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 105 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-09.htm
... was killed, along with twenty or so other senior officers and officials involved in the war against the PIRA, when their helicopter crashed in June 1994. Was the fact that all these valuable personnel were on one helicopter a cost-cutting exercise? If so, it proved somewhat counter-productive. They were on their way to a security conference that was to discuss the likely response of the Protestant paramilitaries to a deal being struck between the British government and the PIRA. Phoenix was most unhappy at the prospect of such a deal. His biographers paint a picture of an almost saintly man, and while this is unsurprising from his widow, one might have expected a more ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 103 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-11.htm
... of the Reagan-Bush Presidential Campaign, Richard V. Allen, at which a deal was discussed to hold the hostages until after the election ensuring Carter's defeat. Also at the meeting were Allen's aide, Laurence Silberman, and Robert McFarlane, then an aide to Senator John Tower of the Senate Armed Services Committee and later Reagan's third National Security Adviser and a key figure in Irangate. An earlier but less detailed report of this same meeting ran in the Washington Post on November 29, 1986 (Robert Woodward and Walter Pincus). The meeting took place in a Washington, D.C . hotel not long after the Reagan Campaign had learned, in late September 1980, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 103 - 01 Nov 1987 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue14/lob14-01.htm
... Goulding, British Ambassador in Luanda, has assured Britons working in Kafuno that Unita posed no threat. (Times 14th May 1984). But as one of the hostages later said "Unita had been in the town for some time spying out the land. They knew we were all here." (Times 16th April 1984) Perimeter security at the mine was carried out following consultations with the shadowy British group, Defence Systems International. D.S . (UK) advises North Sea oil operators on security measures (See Lobster 4 ). They acted as security consultants to the diamond mining company Diamang, and supplied ex-SAS personnel who were officially employed to help ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 103 - 01 Aug 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue05/lob05-05.htm
... zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/26/ns-16418.html) French Parliament's Echelon Report (Oct 2000) http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/2 /rap-info/i2623.htm (In French). The report 'recommends that the EU should push for the development of secure computer systems and liberalise policy on encryption. ' The enquiry chairman, Arthur Paecht, says neither US nor British authorities cooperated. See 'French Echelon Report says Europe should lock out US Snoops' by John Lettice (www.the register.co.uk/content/1 /13974.html). For a translation of part ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 101 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-23.htm
39. Re: [Lobster #56 (Winter 2008/9)]
... Iraq before Bush and before 9/11 and that the production of the WMD Dossier was one of the key components of a broader political strategy designed to achieve that aim.(1 ) Understanding intelligence Andrew Defty considers the role of Parliament and Parliamentary Committees in allowing parliamentarians to develop expertise in particular policy areas and questions whether the Intelligence and Security Committee has helped generate a wider parliamentary understanding of intelligence. (2 ) Secret histories A forthcoming official history of the Defence Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee(3 ) (the organ responsible for issuing D-Notices)(4 ) has had its publication delayed following disagreements between its author, Rear-Admiral Nick Wilkinson (former Secretary ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 101 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-42.htm
... Information Dept' (OID) and, later still, the plain 'Information Dept'. (C ) Controversial. (Ex) Intelligence Officers named from a study of their career biography. MI5: such as Attached War Office (Ministry of Defence), Civil Assistant War Office, Lt Col Intelligence Corps, 'Special Duties' etc Defence Security Officer or Security Liaison Officer on staff of the Security and Defence Departments of the Colonial and Commonwealth Relations Office. MI6: Passport Control Officers. Visa posts. 'Local Rank'. Attached to British Middle East Office (BMEO) - Cairo, Cyprus, Beirut. The Oman Research Bureau. British Forces HQ Hong Kong. Northern Ireland ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 101 - 01 Sep 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue09/lob09-04.htm
