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“HOW BRITISH STATE SECRECY JUST GOT WORSE”

by Grainne Teggart in Declassified UK

“For too long, the purpose and effect of national security in legacy cases has been to withhold information about killings, collusion and other grave human rights violations”

https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-british-state-secrecy-just-got-worse/

#Press #UK #NorthernIreland #Troubles #Legacy #Government #Killings #Secrecy #Truth #Justice #Collusion #Murder #Stakeknife #Kenova #NCND

How British state secrecy just got worse

The UK government must not use a new Supreme Court judgment as a blank cheque to conceal state wrongdoing

Declassified UK

Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻Aug 4

“I fear the 🇬🇧 courts have once again been hoodwinked by the application of the security services’ doctrine of #NCND (neither confirm nor deny). Created by the #CIA in the 1970s, NCND is enthusiastically applied by Whitehall to cloak its more embarrassing secrets.” https://apple.news/A3GZndHgiQNS4-usI3V82Jw

Sealing Stakeknife’s will weakens faith in security services — The Times and The Sunday Times

In a remarkable judgment last week, details of the will of a Belfast builder were sealed for 70 years — a provision previously made only for members of the royal family. The step was taken to keep secret the estate of Freddie Scappaticci who was the agent Stakeknife, British intelligence’s top spy inside the IRA during the Troubles. While spying on republican leaders, Scappaticci was also chief interrogator, torturer and executioner for the IRA’s internal security unit, which hunted and killed

Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻Aug 4

“I fear the 🇬🇧 courts have once again been hoodwinked by the application of the security services’ doctrine of #NCND (neither confirm nor deny). Created by the #CIA in the 1970s, NCND is enthusiastically applied by Whitehall to cloak its more embarrassing secrets.” apple.news/A3GZndHgiQNS...

Sealing Stakeknife’s will weak...

Sealing Stakeknife’s will weakens faith in security services — The Times and The Sunday Times

In a remarkable judgment last week, details of the will of a Belfast builder were sealed for 70 years — a provision previously made only for members of the royal family. The step was taken to keep secret the estate of Freddie Scappaticci who was the agent Stakeknife, British intelligence’s top spy inside the IRA during the Troubles. While spying on republican leaders, Scappaticci was also chief interrogator, torturer and executioner for the IRA’s internal security unit, which hunted and killed

Vasilis Apr 3, 2023

I made another typewriter clock. This one writes out the time in words. It uses an "algorithm" that gives each letter a different force, based on the finger you would use when touch typing.

☞ https://vasilis.nl/clocks/typewriter-clock/06/

#clock #ncnd #typography