The police can be trusted ...

[David Swarbrick]

In message <200007031105.MAA21208@rossini.ednet.co.uk>, David Hansen
<davidh@spidacom.co.uk> writes
>On 3 Jul 00, at 9:21, Pete Mitchell wrote:
>
>> Part of the HO's defence of RIP seems to be that the police can be
>> trusted never to misuse their powers for political reasons.
>
>Yes. The following exchange took place on this list a month or two 
>ago:
>
>Home Office: "From listening to the comments on this list one gets 
>the impression that the police and civil service act as agents of 
>nasty regimes."
>
>List member: "Isn't that just what happened recently when the 
>Chinese visited?"
>
>Home Office: Silence.

Wasn't it the FO at fault?
>
>The Home Office also had no answer when their claim that the 
>authorities know how to keep information secret was countered by 
>the fact that witnesses to the Stephen Lawrence murder would not 
>agree. Again the Home Office silence was deafening but revealing.

An atrocious leak

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