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Revealed: Warning signs that could have stopped the Omagh bombing
Sunday 04 August 2013
Emails from FBI agent said to show that services had detailed picture of Real IRA before attack
MI5 recruitment: Wanted... the man with the golden (staple) gun
Monday 29 July 2013
It’s ’elf ’n’ safety gone, well, a bit 007. MI5 has offered a new, partial glimpse of what recruitment looks like when your business is state secrecy. A job ad on its website seeks a new head of health and safety. The salary: £60,000. But don’t expect to learn much else.
MI6 and MI5 'refuse to use Lenovo computers' over claims Chinese company makes them vulnerable to hacking
Monday 29 July 2013
Lenovo - the largest PC producer in the world - is indirectly backed by the Chinese state
British aid workers ‘at risk of radicalisation by Syrian rebels’
Wednesday 17 July 2013
Government fears hardline Islamists could turn well-meaning volunteers into jihadists
MPs clear GCHQ use of US Prism system as legal
Wednesday 17 July 2013
But they will review legislation regarding effect of surveillance on privacy and human rights
GCHQ spying programme: Spy watchdog ‘is understaffed and totally ineffective’
Sunday 14 July 2013
Watchdog’s office consists of only 10 staff to monitor 10,000 working in spy agencies
Security experts reveal cyber attack threat to Olympics
Monday 08 July 2013
'Credible attack' aimed at disrupting the lighting of the opening ceremony
Police to apologise for using dead children’s identities
Friday 05 July 2013
Investigation into covert policing has found widespread use of the practice.
Abu Nusaybah, friend of Woolwich suspect Michael Adebolajo who appeared on Newsnight, has trial date set
Friday 28 June 2013
In an interview to the BBC he claimed Adebolajo was offered a job by MI5
Spy agencies to receive £100m increase to tackle terrorism
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Britain’s fight against terrorism is set to get a cash boost, escaping George Osborne’s £11.5 billion cuts to public expenditure.
Key points to expect from the spending review
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Chancellor George Osborne is set to unveil his 2015-16 spending review in the House of Commons this afternoon with cuts of £11.5bn already secured through negotiation with government departments.
MI5 officer harassed fellow spy after 'passionate and volatile' relationship ended as they watched Andy Murray lose at Wimbledon, court told
Monday 24 June 2013
Mark Barton denies harassment, sexual assault and common assault against female colleague
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- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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