Compromised: Incoming MI6 head Sir John Sawers in a picture his wife published on her Facebook profile page
Posted on 07/05/2009 10:39:37 PM PDT by Pontiac
The wife of the new head of Britain's spy agency has posted pictures of her husband, family and friends on internet networking site Facebook, details which could compromise security, a newspaper said on Sunday.
In what the Mail on Sunday called an "extraordinary lapse," the new spy chief's wife, Lady Shelley Sawers, posted family pictures and exposed details of where the couple live and take their holidays and who their friends and relatives are.
Publishing the story on its front page and the pictures on a double-page spread, the Mail on Sunday said the information "could potentially be useful to hostile foreign powers or terrorists."
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So Britain needs a new M?
Shouldn’t be a problem. 007 introduces himself as “Bond, James Bond” in darn near every movie.
Yeah but he is a lowly field officer.
No, heavens no!
They can do a little plastic surgery on him and his family. Relocate them, changer their names and give them new identities.
Then it will be like it never happened.
What should he expect when he told his wife he sells insurance?? :)
I wonder how the Queen feels about this?
He probably had to tell her that he sells horse manure because he works for a Labor government ;)
We are not amused!
Compromised: Incoming MI6 head Sir John Sawers in a picture his wife published on her Facebook profile page
but then he is part of the aristocracy.
One wonders how anybody could be so stupid. Maybe it wasn’t an accident. Maybe she doesn’t want her husband to have the position.
Weren’t the ‘double naught spies’ under MI5, not MI6?
I think you are correct. Bond was a Naval Officer if I remember correctly.
lol internet
Remember she is part of the upper class.
Most likely she saw the page of one of her friends and decided that her family had to have a bragging page too.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she hired someone to build the page for her.
she is the brains of the family too
Spies shouldn’t marry blondes.
Looks like his front four upper teeth are caps.
It does not diminish the major boo-boo of posting his information online, but it is more of a faux pas than a 'now we darn need to appoint another M since this one has been busted up all over the net.'
Now, if he was an active agent in the field ...that would be life threatening. But a chief ...even well-heeled Oligarchs have the resources to easily find that out, and to be honest with you those resources would only enable them to find out a couple of weeks before I personally could.
It's not a big deal from a security point of view (but a big deal from a faux pas aspect, and it would be a great deal if he was an active agent outed).
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