Wed, 12 Dec 2012 - 18:45:41: BBC News - Pat Finucane murder: 'Shocking state collusion', says PM. RUC Officers: Proposed, Passed info & Obstructed http://bbc.in/ZgxITd
“The review, published on Wednesday, found RUC officers proposed Mr Finucane, 39, be killed, said they passed information to his killers and failed to stop the attack and then obstructed the murder investigation.”
RUC Officers: Proposed Killing; Passed Info & Obstructed Investigation
Wed, 12 Dec 2012 - 19:10:34: BBC News- MI5 role key aspect of Finucane review by Desmond de Silva. Who runs the country? Let's have a public review http://bbc.in/128rBjB
Wed, 12 Dec 2012 - 19:18:28: BBC News - How has collusion been defined? Lord Stevens, Judge Cory & Inquiry application development. http://bbc.in/XcDTSQ
“For some, a charge of collusion can only stick if there has been a secret agreement to deliberately and consciously plot to do something wrong.
“For others the definition would also cover having a mindset that means that officers were predisposed to behave or think in ways that meant some people were less protected than they should have been, that investigations were frustrated to protect agents and informers, regardless of their actions.
“Lord Stevens, the then Metropolitan Police Commissioner, carried out a major investigation into collusion in several murders.
“He said collusion ranges "from
1) the willful failure to keep records,
2) the absence of accountability,
3) the withholding of intelligence and evidence, through to
4) the extreme of agents being involved in murder."
“Applying that definition to his three inquiries he reported:
“ "The co-ordination, dissemination and sharing of intelligence were poor. Informants and agents were allowed to operate without effective control and to participate in terrorist crimes.
“ "Nationalists were known to be targeted but were not properly warned or protected. Crucial information was withheld from senior investigating officers. Important evidence was neither exploited nor preserved."
“In 2004, Canadian judge Peter Cory published six reports into alleged collusion in murders in Northern Ireland.
“In outlining his definition of collusion he highlighted several dictionary definitions of the word including "to co-operate secretly: to have a secret understanding."
“He added definitions of connive, a synonym of the verb collude, including this entry from the Oxford Compact Thesaurus:
"to deliberately ignore;
“to overlook;
“to disregard;
“to pass over; “
“to take no notice of;
“to turn a blind eye;
“to wink;
“to excuse;
“to condone;
“to look the other way;
“to let something ride."
“From the Webster dictionary, he quoted:
“ "To pretend ignorance or unawareness of something one ought morally, or officially or legally to oppose;
“ “to fail to take action against a known wrongdoing or misbehaviour - usually used with connive at the violation of a law."
“He went on to write: "How should collusion be defined for the purposes of this inquiry?"
“ "There cannot be public confidence in any government agency that is guilty of collusion or connivance with regard to serious crimes. Because of the necessity for public confidence in government agencies the definition of collusion must be reasonably broad when it is applied to such agencies.
“ "That is to say that they must not act collusively by ignoring or turning a blind eye to the wrongful acts of their servants or agents or by supplying information to assist those servants or agents in their wrongful acts or by encouraging others to commit a wrongful act." “
“An inquiry into the death of Billy Wright, in the Maze prison in 1997, took issue with the emphasis on connivance.
“ "For our part we consider that the essence of collusion is an agreement or arrangement between individuals or organisations, including government departments, to achieve an unlawful or improper purpose. The purpose may also be fraudulent or underhand."
“Her successor as police ombudsman, Al Hutchinson, applied a less broad definition in his report on the attack, in 1971, on McGurk's Bar.
“In the report he wrote: "The essence of collusion requires that a number of elements be present. Not only must there usually be an agreement between two or more parties, but there is also an additional requirement that a sufficiency of evidence exists to establish, on balance, that the act or omission complained of was deliberate and not merely negligent or inadvertent." “
Wed, 12 Dec 2012 - 20:39:44: Independent Editorial: Finucane lays bare the amoral face of Britain - MI5, police & Army's truly shocking behaviour. http://ind.pn/Sd5CpQ
Wed, 12 Dec 2012 - 20:53:43: It's going on today only much worse in London all reported to everybody including the Prime Minister, but no one does anything about it. Where is the “shocking” from him?
There is an alternate government determining life and death in the community attacking innocent people like me with distributed surveillance amongst neighbours for the power of those involved: police, NHS & various government departments. Collusion. Where's the media?
Hashing over the past is important, but dealing with the present is more so. No one wants to believe this could be happening. Everyone blames the victim. That's why it's happening just like all the rest of the historical abuse we're reading about today. [Posted to The Independent for above]
Thu, 20 Dec 2012 - 00:09:43: Telegraph - I fear Andrew Mitchell was set up, says Labour MP. Police Federation reshuffled gov? I can believe it.
