from the Grauniad: John Scarlett was promoted by Tony Blair to head MI6 though he admitted responsibility for the misleading Iraq weapons dossier when he chaired the joint intelligence committee.
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Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
threadeds website, and here's my blog.
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What do you mean by the politicisation of the security services ?"
In short, whereby the views and direction of the security services are motivated soley by Government needs, not security needs.
How this is manifested ?
By the removal of incumbant civil servant heads considered incompatable with political thinking (correctness). Replaced by appointees whose political direction overrides all other merit.
The political appointment of non-elected advisors to whom civil servants expected to report.
Over time the practice achieves an intimidatory influence over other civil service departments.
How do you know this ?
Within the security services, immediate examples that come to mind ...
Dr David Kelly.
The removal of essential caveats from the WMD dossiere, at the bequest of Downing Street.
Downing St leak : "We chose the right man (Lord Hutton) to chair the Kelly Inquiry".Comment
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fair one - although it smacks of conspiracy theory...
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No conspiracy theory.
Politicisation.
Importantly not only of the security services. Since '97 it has swept across every single civil service dept, including the Police.
Look at the roll of Alastair Campbell for example. Asside from being a real nasty piece of work, he beautifully demonstrated an unelected politically directed advisory position; who was head (not advisor) of a civil service dept - communications.
One of the king pins of democracy is the political autonomy of a politically impartial civil service. This has already been seriously eroded by the Blair Control Freak machine.Last edited by BobTheCrate; 10 October 2005, 14:01.Comment
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Thats a big paper written by an academic. I didn't get beyond the first sentence:
In a democratic society, it is the medias’ purpose to provide information upon how political decisions are made and to hold the government to account.
Big bunch of arse. Why would anyone assume the media are correct in what they say? It is doubtful that the reality of many situations as described by the media or the government is an accurate description.
Just accept there are things you can't change and enjoy a peaceful harmonious life...
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To work in I.T. means to work in an environment that constantly changes...Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
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