07-05-2011, 07:52 AM
Rather than this long-winded deconstruction of alleged official errors in investigating and explaining the tragedy, I found this one sentence in The Guardian's article much more revealing about the verdicts in the inquests than anything:
"Lady Justice Hallett also expressed concerns about MI5's recordkeeping and about 'confusion' in its system of assessing targets at the time of the attacks."
My unofficial translation of this is that the intelligence services had tricked themselves into going after the wrong people, and when it all blew up in their face, they destroyed as much of the damning evidence as they could.
"Lady Justice Hallett also expressed concerns about MI5's recordkeeping and about 'confusion' in its system of assessing targets at the time of the attacks."
My unofficial translation of this is that the intelligence services had tricked themselves into going after the wrong people, and when it all blew up in their face, they destroyed as much of the damning evidence as they could.