Kate Wilson won a legal battle against the Metropolitan Police after discovering her long-term boyfriend was an undercover officer

  • @courval@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Wtf is this? The British version of Gestapo’s joy division? Fucking disgusting. Intelligence agencies shouldn’t exist outside war scenarios or valid EXTERNAL threats.

    • @ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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      8 days ago

      7/7 and 21/7 were committed by an internal threat. As was the Manchester Arena bombing, the assassinations of Jo Cox and David Amess and attempted assassination of Stephen Timms, the Streatham stabbings, the London Bridge attacks in 2017 and 2019, the Westminster car attack, Finsbury Park attack, 2017 Westminster attack, murder and attempted beheading of Lee Rigby, Glasgow Airport attack, London nail bombings, Exeter bombing attempt……

      But sure, we don’t need internal intelligence agencies at all.

      After all, why would we want them to have thwarted the 2006 transatlantic airline bombing plot, Talbot Street bomb factory, 2007 London car bombs, Theresa May assassination plot, Exiled 393, attempted hospital bombing in Leeds, and many more that aren’t made public…

    • @bier@feddit.nl
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      48 days ago

      I get your point but there have been many cases of terrorism that was done by someone that already lived (usually legally) in a coutry. Like those assholes that steal a car or truck and just drive it into a busy street. Unfortunately intelligence agencies are a necessary evil.

    • @blackn1ght@feddit.uk
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      37 days ago

      Most countries have intelligence agencies for internal threats. How would you detect and prevent terrorist attacks without them?