Thursday, June 12, 2008

X- Files Conspiracy Or Cock-up?

Top secret files get lost on a train. Strange that the files, a 'take' on Iraq and terrorism, got lost at the same time the government was trying to push through its 42 day terrorism detention plan. You can't make it up.

Strange that they were just left lying around on a commuter train. And strange that whoever found them handed them in to the BBC. Why not the newspapers, where they could have made a fortune? Or more importantly why not to the police?

At one point in the initial reporting, BBC News let the cat out of the bag - describing the person who supposedly left the files on the train as 'one of those shadowy spooks'. Good to know that Smiley's People are alive and well. 

And everyone at the BBC seems to have read the damn thing.

So was it a plant to embarrass the government with its poor record on security breaches? Or part of the deliberate dark arts to just to bring 'Iraq, terrorism and that Al K. Ida bloke'  all into the same sentence. 

Or was it just some absent minded civil servant and a very public spirited BBC viewer. 

Conspiracy or cock-up? The truth is always out there.

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