Day: November 4, 2009

Resignation issue? National Security watchdog wants more surveillance of UK population

Kim Howells MP knows all about surveillance. Back in 1984, he was one of Mrs Thatcher’s unnamed “enemy within” and played a leading role in the National Union of Miners organising the Miners’ Strike in South Wales. Now, he is trusted ex-Minister who chairs the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee which has limited scrutiny role over the very organisations that tapped his phone and monitored his movements those 25 years ago. A curious turn of events to say

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