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Jobs for the boys? Women members of the Intelligence and Security Committee

In a publication clearly timed to coincide with this weekend’s International Women’s Day the Intelligence and Security Committee has published a report on Women in the UK Intelligence Community. The report reveals somewhat disappointing, if not entirely surprising, information about … Continue reading

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Sir Malcolm Rifkind’s status as Chair of the ISC

The ‘cash for access’ allegations against that the former foreign secretaries, Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind, have led  to both being suspended from their parliamentary parties. There are clearly wider questions to be answered about the outside interests of … Continue reading

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ISC Privacy & Security Inquiry – public sessions

With considerably less fanfare than the appearance of intelligence agency heads before the first ever public evidence session of the Intelligence and Security Committee earlier this year, the committee held a series of public sessions last week as part of its Privacy … Continue reading

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New appointment to the Intelligence and Security Committee

The Labour MP, Fiona Mactaggart, has been appointed to the Intelligence and Security Committee to replace the late Paul Goggins , who died in January. Mactaggart is the first new member of the Committee to be appointed since the ISC … Continue reading

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Has the Intelligence and Security Committee leaked?

It is often claimed, not least by members of the Committee itself, that the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) differs from other parliamentary committees in that it does not leak. Members of the ISC, who operate ‘within the ring of … Continue reading

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