Archive for March, 2009
MI5 faces new rules on terror interrogations
The government yesterday bowed to growing pressure over allegations of Britain’s complicity in torture by promising to draw up and publish new guidelines for the security and intelligence agencies when they are involved in interrogating detainees abroad.
Announcing the unexpected move to MPs, Gordon Brown said he condemned torture “absolutely” but had asked the intelligence and security committee (ISC) to help draw up new guidelines “in order to have systems that are robust”.
The government wants you to release personal information
Today I saw that some of my family members received a letter from our, Dutch, government. In this letter they were introducing a new government service, called DigID, which made it possible to access all your important services, like tax institutions, insurance and car licensing, on the internet.
George Orwell Would Be Impressed With Barack Obama
There he was, standing before a joint session of Congress, promising America the moon one minute and sounding like a deficit hawk the next. President Barack Obama and his Democrat cohorts had just rammed through the biggest pile of pork in the history of the Republic, and yet there he stood, before the whole nation, telling us he was going to go through the budget “line by line” finding ways to cut waste. In fact, he intended to “slash the deficit” he “inherited” by almost exactly the amount he and his Democrat Congress had just spent. What a coincidence.
Iran new target of USA
Today I got reminded by two news messages that there was going to happen something to Iran. The first news message was about the fact that Iran would own Weapons of Mass Destruction. The second news message was about Iran having information about Obama´s helicopter.
