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Lord Blair Calls for Laws To Stop 'Principled' Leaking of State Secrets

Posted by Unknown on from the costs-of-party-membership dept.

An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from the Guardian: "Tougher laws are needed to prevent members of the public from revealing official secrets, former Metropolitan police commissioner Lord Blair has said. ... The peer insisted there was material the state had to keep secret, and powers had to be in place to protect it. The intervention comes after police seized what they said were thousands of classified documents from David Miranda – the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has been reporting leaks from the former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden. ... He warned there was a 'new threat which is not of somebody personally intending to aid terrorism, but of conduct which is likely to or capable of facilitating terrorism.' He cited the examples of information leaks related to Manning and WikiLeaks."

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  1. Just let me get this straight by paiute · · Score: 5, Informative

    Flying your jet into a building: Terrorism
    Blowing up yourself in a marketplace: Terrorism
    Leaking information about government crimes: Terrorism
    Google "where to buy a pressure cooker": Terrorism
    Picking your nose: Terrorism

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  2. Re:Government vs terrorists by NoKaOi · · Score: 5, Informative

    Next /. poll:
    Who are you most afraid of?
    -Terrorists
    -My government
    -The voices in my head
    -CowboyNeal

  3. Re: Government vs terrorists by techybod · · Score: 3, Informative

    Many Prime Ministers have been members of the house or Lords, we just dont see it these days.The last one was Douglas-Home but he ended up giving up his peerage and stood for election to the commons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Douglas-Home

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  4. Re: Government vs terrorists by serviscope_minor · · Score: 4, Informative

    I understand the point you were trying to make, but British Prime Ministers are all in fact Lords.

    What?

    As far as I know Mr Cameron has no peerage, and therefore no right to vote in the House of Lords.

    By tradition, every former prime minister, regardless of their affiliation and the affiliation of whoever is in power, is granted a peerage. They have to wait until they're ejected though.

    His job title has "lord" in it, but he's not a lord.

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  5. Re: Government vs terrorists by hughbar · · Score: 5, Informative

    Pretty lousy cop too: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/oct/02/ian.blair.resigns very political and not very coply [to use Jess Stone's lovely word].

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