So who was the official who lost them, anyway? Why isn't his name being released? An update on this story. "Lost al-Qa'eda documents 'could have been useful to terrorists,'" from the Telegraph, June 12 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
The top secret documents about al-Qa'eda left on a train could have been useful to terrorists, a security expert said today.They contained assessments made by the Government's Joint Intelligence Committee, part of the Cabinet Office, on matters of security, defence and foreign affairs.
The information is provided to senior government ministers and officials and the lost files are likely to have offered an insight into possible future government policy regarding al-Qa'eda in Pakistan and Afghanistan and the security situation in Iraq.
Bob Ayers, a security expert from the Chatham House think tank, said: "The JIC is an intelligence organisation which tries to provide considered opinion to senior government officials as to what is going on."
He said that the organisation did not provide policy but its detailed analysis could be acted upon by the Government.
Mr Ayers said whoever had lost the data should face prosecution.
He explained that the loss of private child benefits data by HMRC last year was down to "stupidity", but said this latest breach was criminal.
"For a senior intelligence officer to leave this kind of material on a train constitutes criminal damage and he should be prosecuted," he said....
Yes. A prosecution of that kind would be very interesting.
Another member of the Sandy Berger's I've Got Secrets in My Shorts club.
probably a Muslim insider mole that was thoroughly screened by the Iraqi goverment and cleared by the US security forces...
What left me speechless about this story was that the found documents were turned over to the BBC rather than to the government. What loyalty!
And strangley, I believe that a prosecution now days would stick against the person that lost these documents, instead of the actual perpetrators the information was against.
Off topic, but I have to wonder what this guy's angle is:
Al Yousuf to Acquire 50 Percent Interest in ZAP Recharge-It-All Battery Line
Article here: http://www.zapworld.com/al-yousuf-recharge-it-all
Don't you think it is somewhat like when a clean up crew on a certain aircraft found a box cutter right on the seat - "Hey you dumb kuffar, we got onboard anyway. You can't stop us." Rather like a middle finger salute to humiliate the infidel 'authorities'.
Mischief in the land.
Don't you think it is somewhat like when a clean up crew on a certain aircraft found a box cutter right on the seat - "Hey you dumb kuffar, we got onboard anyway. You can't stop us." Rather like a middle finger salute to humiliate the infidel 'authorities'.
Mischief in the land.
Get a load of this criticism
http://www.reason.com/news/show/36677.html