Despite all of those claims that data security in the public sector had been tightened up so that the loss of the HMRC discs, the loss of secret files on laptops, and the leaving of top secret intelligence briefings on...

Plans for secret inquests in cases involving national security have been shelved in the second Government climbdown over its antiterror legislation in as many days.

Members of the intelligence and security committee 'appalled' about amount of money wasted on project intended to protect secret communications The security services have had to write off tens of millions of pounds because an IT project intended to protect secret communications did not work, it was revealed today. The problem was highlighted in a report from the intelligence and security...

With the UK building industry down in the dumps the possibility of a £275 Million contract to build the new US Embassy in London would seem like a job any firm would love to land. However, British Firms need not apply, since only contractors holding US Defence Department Security Service Secret Facility Clearance, with secret safeguarding capability, are eligible to carry out the work. Unfor...

The Security Service MI5 kept a secret file on Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson throughout his time in office because of his friendships with eastern European businessmen and contacts with the KGB.

In explaining why Damian Green was not going to be prosecuted, the Director of Public Prosecutions told us much about New Labour's corruption of the Civil Service. Not only did the information he had received not endanger national security and not endanger life, but: "Much of it was known to others outside the civil service, for example the security industry or the Labour party or Parliament"...

Ed DaveyLiberal Democrat Foreign Secretary, Edward Davey today called on David Miliband to release all documents and legal advice relating to the Government’s policy on the interrogation of terror suspects outside the UK by British Secret Service Agents, if necessary solely to the Intelligence and Security Committee. Edward Davey said: "The nature of these allegations grows ever more serious...

Wonder what Jill Biden's secret service code name is? Or Harry Truman's for that matter? Here's a full list.

• Secret police intelligence passed to firm • Emails show civil servants passed data on protesters to security officials at E.ON Government officials handed confidential police intelligence about environmental activists to the energy giant E.ON before a planned peaceful demonstration, according to private emails seen by the Guardian. Correspondence between civil servants and security off...

Witnesses will be able to give evidence to the inquiry into the Iraq war in secret even when matters of national security are not involved its chairman has said.