Posted on 07/03/2025 12:10:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The home secretary has said MI5 giving false evidence to multiple courts was a "serious failing", as she accepted a further investigation should take place.
Yvette Cooper, who is responsible for the Security Service, made a written statement to Parliament a day after the High Court ruled MI5's explanations for its false evidence were deficient and unreliable.
She said the government accepted the High Court's conclusion that a "further, robust and independent investigation" should take place.
A panel of three senior judges, including the Lady Chief Justice Baroness Sue Carr, on Wednesday rejected two official inquiries into the false evidence.
One inquiry was commissioned by Cooper and the other was carried out internally by MI5.
The two reviews took place after the BBC revealed MI5 had lied to three courts in a case concerning a neo-Nazi state agent who abused women. The flawed reviews cleared MI5 of deliberate wrongdoing.
Wednesday's High Court judgement said the new investigation should be carried out under the auspices of the Investigatory Powers Commissioner, Sir Brian Leveson, who has oversight of MI5's surveillance activities. His office, IPCO, was also provided with false evidence by MI5 in the case.
The Home Office has refused to answer questions about the position of MI5's third-in-command, the director general of strategy, whose witness evidence was found by the High Court to have been neither fair or accurate and to have omitted critical information, which had to be forced out of MI5 by the court.
Cooper did not mention the senior spy in her statement.
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“Serious failing”
Yeah, I guess you could call it that.
How about a criminal?
These agencies cannot properly audit themselves.
They lie about what they do, then lie about what they did.
MI5 how to Russian mole is their Director General during the Cold War. I am not impressed.
MI5 is the UK equivalent of the FBI. Of course it is corrupt.
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