It should come as no surprise that Islamist extremists are a great threat to US homeland security. But, according to The Telegraph, there’s a twist. The most likely source, the CIA has identified, of another 9/11-scale terrorist atrocity is from terrorists entering the US on the visa-waiver programme offered to British citizens. Yes, the Islamist terrorists will

The CIA is a corrupt and downright terrifying organisation: backing terrorists and turning a blind to others, becoming complicit or active in heinous crimes and propagandising like there’s no basic credulity. Take, well, yesterday. An internal watchdog has finally concluded that the CIA covered up the incompetence that led to the shooting down of ten aircraft, including a...

So..... just checking my MSM scorecard here: seems like the fact some of the future guests of Club Gitmo once passed through Britain makes them British, but passing through a terrorist training camp doesn't mean they're terrorists. Ditto, these guys might have the same ideology as terrorists, behave just like terrorists, associate with terrorists and go where terrorists go, but they're only suspec...

Via The Guardian: Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, has asked the attorney general to investigate possible “criminal wrongdoing” by the MI5 and the CIA over its treatment of a British resident held in Guantánamo Bay, it was revealed tonight. The dramatic development over allegations of collusion in torture and inhuman treatment follows a high court judgment which

An official report will recommend paying £12,000 to the relatives of all those who died in Northern Ireland Troubles, whether policemen, civilian bystanders or terrorists. Its authors say that to distinguish between the violent and the peaceable would create "a hierarchy of victims". They misunderstand both the purpose of criminal compensation and the nature of personal responsibility. Crimi...

People in Alloa will have the opportunity to offer their opinions on the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill when the Justice Committee meets in Alloa Town Hall on Tuesday 19 May.

New powers to crack down on organised crime were branded “astonishingly wide” by an MSP. The Criminal Justice and Licensing Bill covers anyone on the fringes – such as staff at a legal firm or estate agents – who may have suspicions or knowledge that organised crime is being committed and fail to report it.

The CIA station chief who oversaw the intelligence work before the raid that killed Osama bin Laden has been pulled out of Islamabad – the second time in seven months that the CIA's top spy in Pakistan has been replaced.

There is a very important article by Andy Worthington over at Liberal Conspiracy about an announcement by Baroness Scotland of an investigation into activities at Guantanamo: Thursday’s extraordinary announcement that the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, has been asked by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to investigate possible “criminal wrongdoing” by MI5 and the CIA in the case ...

When I saw the headline Obama rules out prosecution for CIA officials for interrogation tactics, my heart sank. 'Hello', I thought, 'the disenchantment starts here'. However, his decision not to prosecute operatives for doing what they had Presidential and Attorney General sign-off for seems sensible. I don't see any mileage in lining up CIA interrogators because they did, essentially, what their