7/7 - Challenge to official narrative goes MSM

[Paul Rigby]

...is it so very inconceivable that, at a wild guess, Langley is unhappy with the current leadership of their British counterparts, some of whom enjoyed less than glorious roles in events both before and after 7/7 (not to mention 9/11) - and not above nudging things in a direction which would benefit more enthusiastic UK proteges primed a couple of rungs beneath the top of the ladder?

Another straw - and quite a large one, at that - in the wind:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk...639521.ece

From Times Online July 5, 2009

Wife blows MI6 chief’s cover on Facebook

By Ben Gurr

The wife of the new head of MI6 has caused a major security breach and left his family exposed after publishing photographs and personal details on Facebook.

Sir John Sawers is due to take over as chief of the Secret Intelligence Service in November, putting him in charge of all of Britain’s spying operations abroad.

But entries by his wife Shelley on the social networking site have exposed potentially compromising details about where they live and work, their friends’ identities and where they spend their holidays. On the day her husband was appointed she congratulated him on the site using his codename “C”.

Lady Sawers had put virtually no privacy protection on her account, making it visible to any of the site’s 200m users around the world who choose to be in the open-access London social network on Facebook.

The extraordinary lapse exposed the couple’s friendships with senior diplomats and well-known actors, including a leading character in The Archers, the BBC Radio 4 drama, and revealed that the intelligence chief’s brother-in-law, who holidayed with him last month, is an associate of David Irving, the controversial right-wing historian.

Once the Foreign Office had been informed of the faux pas all the material was removed from the internet. The move suggests that MI6 or the Foreign Office had not vetted the information the Sawers family shared over the internet.

Foreign Office staff are warned about using social networking sites when they join but MI6 advises its agents to maintain even tighter secrecy, telling them to reveal their true role only to their closest family.

Last night Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, told The Mail On Sunday: “This type of exposure verges on the reckless. The prime minister should immediately commission an internal inquiry as to whether this has breached the security of the incoming head of MI6 too seriously to allow him to take up the post.”

The Tory MP Patrick Mercer said the MI6 chief had left himself open to blackmail. A Foreign Office spokesman was unavailable for comment last night.

Was Sawers' wife really that naive? And is this the man Langley wants in his stead?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk...794989.ece

Charles Farr, a 49-year-old spymaster who has overhauled the Home Office’s handling of the war on terror, is widely tipped to become “C” - the chief of MI6 - next July, succeeding Sir John Scarlett.

Sawers' offence?

http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2009/07/mo...n-any.html

In 2008, Sir John Sawers, while Permanent Representative of the UK to the UN, said about Palestine: "The closing of all crossings and restriction of the supply of fuel, food and other goods in order to create suffering among the civilian population is not the right response..."

So now we know - he's not "on message" with the neo-cons.