Re:UK police use terror powers to seize BBC Newsnight journa...
by pjc50 on Friday October 30, 2015 @08:12AM
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And policing in Northern Ireland was far more draconian than occasionally confiscating journalists' laptops when politely questioning them might have yielded more useful results.
This is absolutely true and the security services have largely refused to learn the right lessons from NI.
The thing about the overseas conflicts is that they're overseas, and there are many more countries and intelligence services involved on various sides. That makes them a lot harder to tackle and purely domestic solutions somewhat futile.
This is absolutely true and the security services have largely refused to learn the right lessons from NI.
The thing about the overseas conflicts is that they're overseas, and there are many more countries and intelligence services involved on various sides. That makes them a lot harder to tackle and purely domestic solutions somewhat futile.