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Britain
UK intel official leaves secret Qaeda file on train
2008-06-12
One of Britain's top intelligence officials left a file with secret documents about Iraq and al Qaeda on a train, in an embarrassing government security breach that was exposed on Wednesday.
Brilliant. Simply brilliant.
A passenger found the orange folder on a train and handed it in to the BBC, which said it contained top secret documents on Iraq and al Qaeda.
If I found a classified document on a train, I'd hand it to a cop, not to the BBC. But I guess that's just me.
The Cabinet Office, the central government department that supports the work of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, acknowledged the incident and said it had called the cops in a police investigation. "The documents were secret. They were in the possession of a senior intelligence official who works in the Cabinet Office. They were lost on a train," a Cabinet Office spokesman said. "They were retrieved by a member of the public who handed them to the BBC," he said. "When the official realized what had happened, he reported it immediately to the Cabinet Office. We called the police in and they launched an investigation." A police spokeswoman confirmed that the counter-terrorism command of London's police force was carrying out the probe.
Posted by:Fred

#6  RING
Hello, BBC Newsdesk
If you want a scoop, go to the train station and look in car 14 cabin 3-A, you might find something interesting there.
CLICK
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-06-12 13:36  

#5  I want to know what he was doing carrying secret documents on a train. I can't believe a bureaucracy wouldn't have rules about that.
Posted by: Spot   2008-06-12 07:51  

#4  Might not hurt to have some of that stuff leaked.
Posted by: gorb   2008-06-12 02:08  

#3  Fred If I found a classified document on a train, I'd hand it to a cop, not to the BBC. But I guess that's just me.

dittos
Posted by: Rapporteur™   2008-06-12 01:42  

#2  We Brit Media types are chockablock full of Communists, Socialists and Islamists.

Guardian, BBC, and just about all our British MSM outlets are far to the LEFT of any American Media purveyors of "NEWS"

For instance we Brits are repulsed by your 2nd amendment, in fact we consistantly kill any pro gun coverage for our Citizens soon to be slaves.

Ownership of handguns or the Citizen right to carry handguns for protection is an anathema to our souless Media-Drone way of "life".

Conservative ideas on governing makes our old Soviet handlers turn RED [er]. [LOL!]

We Hate libertarians as well and small government... forgetaboutit!!
Posted by: Rapporteur™   2008-06-12 01:40  

#1  Clowns, Jokers. Is there anyone competent up there?
Posted by: Alaska Paul at Hamilton, Ontario   2008-06-12 01:23  

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