Newsnight tonight

[Peter Tomlinson]

Pity you didn't do it for Channel 4.

Peter

Ross Anderson wrote:
>  We helped make a piece on ATM fraud a few weeks ago for Newsnight,
>  pointing out that law enforcement on bank fraud is now deeply
>  corrupt. The Home Office did a deal with the banks so that fraud
>  victims must report the crime to the bank, not the police; the City
>  force's card squad is a tied cottage (as Nick put it) as the banks
>  pays its bills; ditto the Met's e-crime squad; ditto the Financial
>  services ombudsman. This is jolly nice for the banks when the fraud
>  is done by a bent insider they don't want exposed, and jolly nasty
>  for the poor customer. It's also jolly nice for terrorists such as
>  the Tamil Tigers who use ATM fraud to raise money to finance murder
>  and mayhem. It's really wonderful for government spin doctors as
>  fraud figures have fallen to near zero.
>
>  I'm now told that the programme will run tonight. Unfortunately a lot
>  of its teeth have been drawn (below)
>
>  Ross
>
>  **
>
>  Date:    Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:09:10 BST To:
>  <Ross.Anderson@cl.cam.ac.uk> From:    *** @bbc.co.uk> Subject:
>  newsnight
>
>  Just to let you know. The piece will run tonight. Sadly  we could
>  only include a small part of your magnificent contribution, so the
>  angle about the tamil tigers was dropped,  against my wishes. The
>  banks spokesman is coming on afterwards. The Home Office  and ACPO
>  both refused to appear.
>
>  Regards
>
>  ***