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Charles Clarke is coming under increasing pressure to reveal the exact wording of the attorney general’s advice about the detention of terror suspects. It comes a day after the home secretary mistakenly revealed to MPs that Lord Goldsmith was in favour of the controversial proposal to detain terror suspects for up to ninety days without… Read more »
The government’s spying watchdog has issued a warning against the use of phone-tap evidence in court, claiming it could compromise the work of the country’s secret services. The interception of communications commissioner Sir Swinton Thomas has called for the government to stand up to mounting pressure over allowing evidence acquired from phone-tapping operations to be… Read more »
