CON COUGHLIN HAS WRITTEN A GOOD ARTICLE TODAY

Con Coughlin has written a good article today for The Daily Telegraph.

In MI5 must pay for a scandalous error he says

The picture of MI5 that emerges from a careful reading of the ISC report is of an organisation that feels at ease with its own complacency.

This, after all, is the same organisation that, in the 1990s, allowed London to become a world-renowned centre for Islamic extremists, earning the capital the unwelcome soubriquet "Londonistan". It was here that the Paris Metro bombings in 1995 were masterminded, and most of the key figures responsible for planning the 9/11 attacks had strong ties with the British capital.

I believe there is much more than complacency going down here.

There is something sick within British Intelligence. If it's not shooting up Northern Irish citizens, it's fitting up known innocent businessmen for torture in Afghanistan. And if it's not that it's arranging with the FBI for infrared bomb technology to be placed into the hands of the IRA and allowing it to be used in Northern Ireland. Yes, some good is done by them. It's as some MPs said a few years ago after the break-in at Castlereagh; rogue elements. The state security apparatus is used for private motive, profit and gain.

The whole point is to create terror. With terror a population is much more easily controlled. The population want protection and flock to the government to protect them with a Police State, or even war. I will still argue that 7/7 was a 'Goldilocks' event; it was just right. With the IRA terror threat now gone a new terror threat was required, but too much terror and cries of incompetence are made, while too little terror and we go about our lives with freedom and without fear and with our minds free to think about our lives and the shitty state of the world instead of being drowned in celebrity this, that and the other.

What happened after 7/7 though? Or rather how was 7/7 used by The Security Services and politicians? More police state laws. There has even been a letter from Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller requesting that evidence gained from torture be used as evidence!! And yet as Con Coughlin in the above article states

More than £1.5 billion is spent on funding MI5, MI6, and the high-tech GCHQ base at Cheltenham, and billions more are spent on the nation's police forces, which include Special Branch and the Anti-Terrorism Branch.

But all this money - and all the "resources" that it buys - counts for nothing if our security chiefs can't be bothered to carry out even the most rudimentary identity checks on potential terror suspects, the kind of checks the police are only too ready to conduct for the most inconsequential traffic infringements.

So quite happy to use torture. But check someone's identity? Sod that!

I heard a relative of a survivor of 7/7 on the radio yesterday. He was very angry and suspicious. Why? Because the excuse for 7/7 is 'lack of resources'. He asked what complaints were made by MI5 about lack of resources? What were the results of these complaints, if indeed there were any? These are questions he was asking, not me. But I'm asking them now because I think this is an achilles heel. Can a FOIA be made to learn what requests were made, when, and by whom to whom, and the results of any such requests?