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Smith to be questioned on latest mislaid terror papers



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Published Date: 16 June 2008
By Gavin Cordon
HOME Secretary Jacqui Smith was last night facing a Commons summons to explain the latest government security lapse after another batch of secret papers was left on a train.
The documents, covering global terrorist funding, drugs trafficking and money laundering, were handed in to the Independent on Sunday after being found last week on a train going to Waterloo station, London.

This coincided with Joint Intelligence Committee assessments on Iraq and al-Qaeda being passed to the BBC after they, too, were left on a train.

Although neither incident involved the Home Office, Keith Vaz, the chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, said it would be calling Ms Smith to ask her to explain the implications for the fight against terrorism.

The latest documents related to a conference of the Financial Action Task Force, beginning today in London.



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  • Last Updated: 15 June 2008 9:49 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Labour Party
 
1

SouthernSkye,

16/06/2008 07:52:23
Just what IS the point of all the proposed (and enacted) NL laws relating to terrorism when they go scattering documents around trains?
Has anyone a list of all the sensative and personal information that NL have lost over the past years?
I wouldn't trust them to organise a party in a brewery.
(very polite at the end there I was;-)
2

Toast,

16/06/2008 08:37:21
42 days on remand for Smith,she and her departments are a far greater risk to the public than any terrorist
3

BIG EYE,

Paisley 16/06/2008 09:12:49
Now that Labour have caught up with the Freedom of Information Legislation could they put their heads together and see if they can come up with a better way of releasing the information than leaving it on trains?
4

The Former Mr. Angry,

Perth 16/06/2008 09:43:24
Jacqui, you really need to make sure Gordon gets his medications on time. That's the second time he's done this.
5

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16/06/2008 16:11:22
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Bede,

Vermont 16/06/2008 16:16:43
Why is "classified" material allowed to be removed from "the office" in the first place?
7

Joe Macdelta.,

16/06/2008 16:34:38
They shoudna even be trustd to look after the Daily Record, what a joke, I think they must lose them deliberatly, its the only answer.

 

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