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Britain's Securitocracy in the frame

Last Updated on Friday, 14 March 2008 11:39

Britain's "securitocracy", as Paul Gilroy has termed it, was discovered to have been secretly recording the MP for Tooting Sadiq Khan during his meetings with Babar Ahmed who was held in Milton Keynes under suspicion of running fund-raising web sites for the Taleban. The Conservative Shadow home secretary David Davis was the unlikely whistle-blower.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7225209.stm

But the inquiry it stimulated did not deny that this had occurred and unsurprisingly found that such bugging did not "break the rules":

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/22/uksecurity.police

For a brief moment the securocrats became the subject of an investigation, MP's presumably were told it was for their own good not to make too much of an issue of being so treated, and the fuss it generated abated in the press. We have made it a hot topic as its frame still remains even though apparently out of sight.