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Put that a 7/7 inquiry would allow lessons to be learned on intelligence gathering methods, the PMOS said we had already had that type of inquiry carried out by the independent Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) therefore those lessons had already been explored and learned. The question people needed to ask was whether we diverted police resources when there were 70 ongoing terror related investigations being carried out. We believed that we should not divert those resources. Put that the police had been able to deploy 250 officers to Forest Gate, the PMOS said that suggestion was facile. The officers that were deployed to Forrest Gate were not the officers that would be diverted into an inquiry. It would be the senior officers who were directing the 70 terror investigations and senior members of our intelligence community. This was serious stuff and that suggestion was oversimplifying the situation to say the least.

We recognised fully the anxieties and concerns of the families, which was why Tessa Jowell and the Home Secretary had been meeting the families individually. We recognised that when they saw the various inaccurate media reports, as the Prime Minister had said yesterday, that concerns arose but we believed the best way to deal with those real and legitimate concerns was to talk to people and address them individually rather than invite upon the system the full costs and pressure in terms of time, resources and diversion that a public inquiry would when we continued to face the serious threat we did.

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"inaccurate media reports" – only according to PMOS spin.

Why not admit that the security services were taken for a ride. Its embarrassing when the ‘enemy’ actually get you to bite at the ‘false’ bait.

You can’t prove it to the general public without glorifying the terrorists who put one over on you.

You look silly if you publicly admit that their ‘counter espionage’ is working better than yours.

So you just have to bite the bullet and hope that next time you don’t get hooked by their ‘counter espionage’ and that the intelligence is genuine so that you actually capture the terrorists and not the stooges.
Comment by Roger Huffadine — 5 Jul 2006 on 10:04 pm | Link

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