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Justice and security green paper
In safeguarding national security the Government produces and receives sensitive information. This information must be protected appropriately, as failure to do so may compromise investigations, endanger lives and ultimately lessen its ability to keep the country safe. The increased security and intelligence activity of recent years has led to greater scrutiny including in the civil courts, which have heard a growing numbers of cases challenging Government decisions and actions in the national security sphere. Such cases involve information that under current rules cannot be disclosed in a courtroom. The UK justice system is then either unable to pass judgment and cases collapse or are settl...
Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction
The report examines whether the available intelligence that informed the decision to invade Iraq was adequate and properly assessed, and whether it was accurately reflected in Government publications. The report covers several topics. (1) Assessments between 1990 and September 2002. The Committee accepts that there was convincing evidence that Iraq had active chemical, biological and nuclear programmes after 1990, all prohibited by United Nations Security Council resolutions, but there was no firm intelligence about the exact nature and extent of any weapons. The Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) assessment of 9 September 2002 is viewed as a balanced assessment of scenarios, but it does not...
Mitrokhin Inquiry Report
An investigation into the intelligence and security agencies' handling of the information on the KGB and its activities from 1917 to 1984 provided by Vasili Mitrokhin, former chief archivist of the KGB. The report investigates the key concerns of the Committee: why the British spies were not prosecuted; the method of publication of the Mitrokhin archive and its handling; and ministerial and senior official oversight.
Could 7/7 Have Been Prevented?
On Monday 30 April 2007, five men were convicted of terrorist offences relating to a plot to detonate a fertiliser bomb in the UK in 2004. The arrests were the result of a police and MI5 operation codenamed CREVICE. Following the trial, the media reported that, at the time MI5 had been investigating CREVICE, the bomb plotters had been in contact with two unidentified men now known to be Mohammed Siddique Kahn and Shazad Tanweer, two of the four men who, on 7 July 2005, detonated bombs on the London transport system, killing 52 people and injuring several hundred others. This report investigates why MI5, knowing of Khan and Tanweer, did not prevent the 2005 bombings. Part A examines what happ...
The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee
For almost 80 years the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) has been a central player in the secret machinery of the British Government, providing a co-ordinated intelligence service to policy makers, drawing upon the work of the intelligence agencies and Whitehall departments. Since its creation, reports from the JIC have contributed to almost every key foreign policy decision taken by the British Government.
The Report of the Detainee Inquiry
Although the work of the Detainee Inquiry was brought to a conclusion it was agreed that the Inquiry should provide the Government with a report on its preparatory work to date, highlighting particular themes or issues which might be the subject of further examination. The Inquiry's terms of reference required an examination of whether the UK Government, and its Security and Intelligence Agencies, were involved in, or aware of, improper treatment of detainees. It followed four themes: Interrogation and treatment issues, Rendition, Training and guidance, Policy and communications. Based on these themes, the Inquiry has identified 27 issues which it believes might be the subject of further examination, together with a series of questions that it would have wished to investigate in relation to each issue. This Report is an interim document. It is intended to help Government in its preparation for any new Inquiry, including in relation to the terms of reference and protocols it may wish to develop. The Report may also serve to identify areas where action would be appropriate now, without awaiting a further Inquiry
The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture (Academic Edition)
The study edition of book the Los Angeles Times called, "The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations." This is the complete Executive Summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation into the CIA's interrogation and detention programs -- a.k.a., The Torture Report. Based on over six million pages of secret CIA documents, the report details a covert program of secret prisons, prisoner deaths, interrogation practices, and cooperation with other foreign and domestic agencies, as well as the CIA's efforts to hide the details of the program from the White House, the Department of Justice, the Congress, and the American people. Over five years in the...
Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament Annual Report 2012-2013
The Committee looked at key findings on the performance of the intelligence Agencies, the Agencies assessment of the threat, counter terrorism, cyber security, amongst others. It noted that it had been a particularly demanding year for the Agencies especially with regard to the Olympic and Paralympic Games which represented the largest intelligence and security challenge ever faced in peacetime.While the Agencies' efforts to keep the UK safe remain impressive, the Committee does have a number of concerns. The most significant is with regard to their collaborative savings programme, which must secure savings and efficiencies during the Spending Review period and it noted there has not been mu...
The Open Side of Secrecy
Analyses Britain's Intelligence and Security Committee - the committee of parliamentarians which has the legal power to pry into the activities of MI6, MI5 and GCHQ. It looks at how well the Committee has done its job, while dissecting the Committee's successes and failures and suggesting ways in which it could become more effective in future.
