The police can be trusted ...

[David Hansen]

On 4 Jul 00, at 10:42, Owen Lewis wrote:

[Stephen Lawrence report leak]

> Nevertheless, the confidentiality or lack of it afforded that
> enquiry's witness list (normally a document of public record?)

Not if the enquiry tells the people concerned it will not be.

> has
> nowt to do with efficacy in the handling of classified or even privacy
> marked material.

Yes and no. It indicates the sort of sloppiness/bungling 
incompetence (opinions vary) for which the Home Office is well 
known.



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