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mark occomore
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 Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:07 pm Post subject: Loss Of Government Data |
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Top-secret documents containing the latest government intelligence assessment on al-Qaeda have been left on a train in London.
The documents belonged to a very senior intelligence official working in the Cabinet Office.
A passenger on the train from Waterloo to Surrey spotted the orange cardboard envelope lying abandoned on a seat and handed the documents to the BBC.
A full-scale search had been launched by the Metropolitan Police.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7449255.stm
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johnump
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting that the person decided to hand the documents to the BBC rather than the Police.......
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gfloyd
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| johnump wrote: | | Interesting that the person decided to hand the documents to the BBC rather than the Police....... |
I'm amazed by that too. You gotta wonder about some people.
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Briant
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:38 pm Post subject: Lost horizons.... |
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| Well done that person! The police would have hushed it up of course. |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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| johnump wrote: | | Interesting that the person decided to hand the documents to the BBC rather than the Police....... |
I was thinking the same thing myself.
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mark occomore
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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| johnump wrote: | | Interesting that the person decided to hand the documents to the BBC rather than the Police....... |
I wonder if the BBC photocopies the documents and keeps them for records?  |
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gfloyd
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | johnump wrote: | | Interesting that the person decided to hand the documents to the BBC rather than the Police....... |
I wonder if the BBC photocopies the documents and keeps them for records? |
I would think so. NBC photocopied all the material the crazy guy who killed a number of students in Virgina last year sent them.
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John W
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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I reckon this all a fake incident dreamed up by the government to sway some votes on the terrorist-suspect custody issue. It's just one of those incidents that is too ridiculous to believe.
No spy or MI5 person would actually get a folder out in the train. His instructions must be to read or handle such things in the office or at home or wherever spies hang around, not in a flippin' train.
Since it's a scam a person was employed to 'find' them and to give them to the BBC so that they would get publicity and sway the vote of MPs who were unsure. Giving them to police would not have created publicity; we wouldn't be told.
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mark occomore
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 5:05 am Post subject: |
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| John W wrote: | I reckon this all a fake incident dreamed up by the government to sway some votes on the terrorist-suspect custody issue. It's just one of those incidents that is too ridiculous to believe.
No spy or MI5 person would actually get a folder out in the train. His instructions must be to read or handle such things in the office or at home or wherever spies hang around, not in a flippin' train.
Since it's a scam a person was employed to 'find' them and to give them to the BBC so that they would get publicity and sway the vote of MPs who were unsure. Giving them to police would not have created publicity; we wouldn't be told.
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RobbieM
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| Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:42 am Post subject: |
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| John W wrote: | I reckon this all a fake incident dreamed up by the government to sway some votes on the terrorist-suspect custody issue. It's just one of those incidents that is too ridiculous to believe.
No spy or MI5 person would actually get a folder out in the train. His instructions must be to read or handle such things in the office or at home or wherever spies hang around, not in a flippin' train.
Since it's a scam a person was employed to 'find' them and to give them to the BBC so that they would get publicity and sway the vote of MPs who were unsure. Giving them to police would not have created publicity; we wouldn't be told. |
I have a hunch you're right, John. There's something dodgy about all this.
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