Ian Cobain – Middle East Eye Jan 28, 2021
MI6 headquarters, London.
A controversial law that will permit agents recruited by the UK’s police and domestic security service MI5 to commit serious crimes has passed one of its final hurdles in parliament.
Known as the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill, the new law puts onto a statutory footing a shadowy practice that has been informally permitted for decades.
The British government decided to draw up the legislation after a number of NGOs brought a legal challenge to the long-standing informal practice.
It passed its first parliamentary stages after the leader of the Labour opposition Keir Starmer – a former chief prosecutor for England and Wales – instructed his MPs to abstain rather than vote against the new law.
Members of parliament’s upper house, the Lords, voted to amend the bill in order to prohibit the police and MI5 from recruiting juveniles as covert human intelligence sources, or “chises” as such agents are known in UK law enforcement circles.
Members of the lower house, the Commons, rejected the amendment after Michael Ellis, the government’s solicitor general, told them that juveniles were recruited as chises only in exceptional circumstances, and insisted that there were sufficient safeguards in place to protect them.
A second Lords’ amendment, which would have prohibited chises from being authorised to commit murder, torture or rape, was also rejected when the bill returned to the Commons on Wednesday.
Ellis said it was important that criminals were not presented with “a checklist” against which they could test the reliability of their accomplices.
The bill will now go back to the Lords.
Since March 2017, the police and MI5 have foiled 28 terrorist plots against the country, Ellis said, and human intelligence was central to each successful investigation.
New law may be open to abuse
The UK parliament’s human rights committee has warned that the new law may be open to abuse.
But the government insists that human intelligence is so important in combatting terrorism and serious crime, that the agents it recruits cannot be placed at risk by refusing to participate in the offences that they report on.
Two of the NGOs that brought the legal challenge are based in Northern Ireland, where agents recruited by MI5, the police, and military intelligence are known to have committed a series of serious crimes.
The most notorious was the 1989 murder of a Belfast lawyer, Pat Finucane, who was shot dead in front of his wife and children.
Three subsequent official inquiries established that the murder was planned by an employee of the UK’s Ministry of Defence and that the weapons were supplied by a police informer. When the getaway driver was arrested, he was recruited as an agent rather than prosecuted.
Police oversight inspectors have also uncovered allegations that a chis who confessed to shooting a woman in her head with a shotgun was subsequently given a pay rise by his police handlers, because following the murder he was promoted within the terrorist group he was reporting upon.
The new law will allow the authorisation of crimes committed within the UK.
A law that was passed in 1994 has provisions for senior government ministers to sign warrants that protect UK intelligence officers who commit crimes outside the UK from being prosecuted or sued within the country.
Like the Covert Human Intelligence Sources bill, that law can also be used to authorise the use of lethal force.
This has come up on here before. They have always protected lawbreakers. The three-letter agencies work very closely with organised crime/gangs. In fact, I believe that 3LAs train criminals to commit crimes & offer logistical support (Dr. David Kelly) when they are carrying out these crimes.
Sir John Stevens ex-Met Chief investigated the murder of Princess Diana. He went too far on Breakfast TV & his offices in Putney were broken into and key computers were removed. I would also say that sheeple are beaten, suicided, and outright murdered, directly and indirectly by the 3LAs. And keep in mind that not that long ago the fake news ran many stories suggesting that our 3LAs never went around killing people… ‘we’re British, we don’t do that kind on thing’.
How do they procure children to spy on their parents? This is a grey area in the social media age, but if you are a bonafide presstitute in the UK, you are legally required to get permission from the parent or legal guardian so you can interview a child… so how does a 3LA jerk approach & groom a child to spy on parents for the deep state?
Just so the twats at GCHQ and the other 700 or so UK bodies who have the legal right to hack our phones, computers, laptops, home phones, TVs & smoke alarms know, we (as a household) already use careful language and write down anything sensitive which is then destroyed (fully aware of underside printing), we aren’t even doing anything wrong. My kids are grown up, they know the problems, but how long have the 3LAs been grooming children? Are these children going to be used to sexually compromise a parent???
Thus legalizing the “Black Bagging” we watched in “V for Vendetta”.
Import plenty of horny, hostile, opportunistic welfare shoppers. Destroy your country. Terrorize what’s left…
“Since March 2017, the police and MI5 have foiled 28 terrorist plots against the country, Ellis said, and human intelligence was central to each successful investigation.”
Interesting….
They seem to have completely missed, without any shadow of a doubt, the world’s largest terrorist plot ever conducted with the corona pandemic. Odd, don’t you think, that they’ve been unable to foil it, when the co-conspirators sit in the House of Commons and House of Lords?
You can guarantee that 99% of the public hasn’t a clue about this bill. And no, people, it’s not a law. The government can’t make laws. It’s legislation, contract law and I’ve written about that, on here, extensively in the past.
Interesting also, don’t you think, that it includes ‘rape’. Clearly, another Jew created piece of legislation, with MI5 being in touch with their Mossad, sister agency, who’ll have been giving them advice on what they need. Yes, I know, rape is a form of torture, but it will certainly give many of the rapists enjoyment, knowing they have carte blanche to rape.
All I’m going to say is the security forces are setting themselves up for a horrific fall. How anyone, in politics, could pass this bill, let alone contemplate it, shows just how corrupt and evil politicians are. If any of you are politicians are reading this, let me make it clear, you’ve already crossed the Rubicon. Your fates are sealed along with the security services and judiciary. Your actions, on this disgusting piece of legislation, will depend how you leave this mortal coil.
Do you truly think that ANY of you stand a chance, when the people wake up? Do you think that the security services and the judiciary will protect you? Hell! They’re f*cked as well. You’ll have nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. Talk about sh*tting on your own doorstep.
The only law & morality the Overlords believe in, is ‘Might Makes Right’. And conversely, that’s the only way to defeat them; but they have all the might: police, law, technology, weapons, military etc…
But hey, you wiped out the might of pro-white/anti-Communist Germany in WWII, so we have no major force or nation left to combat this anti-white Communist scum…Thanks for nothing.