The Diary Room 7.00 pm: The BBC reports that top secret documents were left on a train.
Well Big Brother… the Labour sponsored reality show that is our government – as opposed to the nonsense on Channel 4 – would not have been pleased about this.
The BBC reports: ” A police inquiry has been launched after top-secret documents containing the latest government intelligence on al-Qaeda were left on a train. The documents belonged to a very senior intelligence official working in the Cabinet Office. A passenger on the train from Waterloo in London to Surrey spotted an envelope the papers were in abandoned on a seat and handed the documents to the BBC. A full-scale search for them had been launched by the Metropolitan Police. Just seven pages long but classified as “UK Top Secret”, the latest government intelligence assessment on al-Qaeda is so sensitive that every document is numbered and marked “for UK/US/Canadian and Australian eyes only”, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said.”
I’ve just been talking to Carl Gardner, author of the Head of Legal blog, about this and 42 days. We are both a little puzzled about the timing of this announcement. It appears to have been announced quite late in the day, given that the documents were lost on Tuesday – too late for the 42 day detention debaters to hear? Possibly? Unless they were all given the information before the news picked up on it.
One assumes the BBC notified the Police who were rushing around looking for these documents? One assumes, therefore, that someone in government would have been told? But when? The BBC, as yet, is silent on the point in their report available at 7.00 tonight. Good to know that our secrets are safe from prying terrorist eyes.The documents were left on the train on Tuesday according to the BBC report.
Podcasting tomorrow with Carl Gardner on 42 days, lost documents and a bit on The EU Treat and the Irish Referendum… we may even talk about Carl’s holiday.
I’m saying nothing… I’m planning to leave my comment for all to see on a train leaving Paddington. Which one is for you to decide. You have 42 days to work it all out…
Said official probably had a pile of newspapers that he’d finished with and left on the train. It’s so easy to get other things mixed up with newspapers. I remember doing it once with a birthday card.
It’s easily done …
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I see the F.A.T. F*U*C*K*E*D up this time… what is it with trains and secret documents???
The government are sooooooo busy worrying about terrorism, 42 days, et al., but they’re not exactly helping their own cause, are they???
Twice in one day is quite something.
It’s almost easier to believe that this is a deliberate policy to get the information out into the public domain in a way that El Gordo cannot be blamed (directly) for!
Sheesh … I’m becoming a conspiracy theorist now …