[PDF file]: […] a situation where the pursuit of freedom from arbitrary power simply ends up producing more arbitrary power, and as a result, regulations choke existence, armed guards and surveillance cameras appear everywhere, science and creativity are smothered, and all of us end up finding increasing percentages of our day taken up in the filling out […]
[…] The Rise and Fall of New Labour Andrew Rawnsley London: Penguin/Viking, 2010, £25.00 Ghost Dancers David John Douglass Hastings: Christie Books, 2010, £12.95 The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy Heather Brooke London: William Heinemann, 2010, £12.99 Broonland: The Last Days of Gordon Brown Christopher Harvie London/New York: Verso, 2010, […]
[PDF file]: […] CPGB Central Committee member George Mathews,315 illustrates Peter Wright’s claim that ‘By 1955 . . . the CPGB was thoroughly penetrated at almost every level by technical surveillance or informants’. With the spreading disillusion in the 1950s, climaxed by the Soviet invasion of Hungary, MI5 can have had little trouble recruiting active and former […]
[…] the Executive Office of the President via the National Security Council. Certain key areas of the judiciary belong to the Deep State, such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, whose actions are mysterious even to most members of Congress. Also included are a handful of vital federal trial courts, such as the Eastern District […]
[PDF file]: […] story went, were immediately suspicious of Oswald, not least because he spoke no Spanish. The New Orleans DRE therefore turned him down. They had then supposedly mounted surveillance on Oswald and discovered that he was running a New Orleans chapter of the national Fair Play for Cuba Committee.93 During his chapter’s meetings (McCarthy told […]
[PDF file]: […] German husband, the first having been killed in WW1. It seems that in the 30s MI5 automatically kept people with some sort of link to Germany under surveillance. No motive – political, financial or emotional – was found for her activities. 1 at Moscow (5 December 1941), that the war was now lost, or […]
[…] proved fruitless, Manfred’s widow was forced to sign an affidavit stating that she would not tell anyone else what had happened; and Rene’s widow was kept under surveillance for months to see if she would reveal information to anyone else. The two women, who have exercised their right to privacy ever since, were also […]
[PDF file]: […] Irish archives.12 What Stalker established in the cases he examined was that those targeted by the RUC SB, and paramilitaries operating on their behalf, were often under surveillance for lengthy periods prior to being killed. It was known that they were unarmed. It was also the case that not all of them were IRA […]
[PDF file]: […] and Brown governments packed with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and wellbeing. From surveillance and the national security state to the ‘war on terror’ and control orders and rendition, Ewing’s solid, incisive work reaches out to lawyers and journalists, but […]
