MI5: “Sometimes it is necessary & proportionate for agents to be involved in a managed level of criminal activity, in order to win trust of those intent on harming UK".

Plot to kill Theresa May cited to support a new law allowing spies to break the law. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/09/24/foiled-isil-murder-plot-shows-spies-need-legal-right-break-law/?utm_content=politics&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1600937130

"Officers from 14 agencies will be covered by new law including intelligence agencies, police, National Crime Agency, immigration and borders, armed forces, Serious Fraud Office and prison service".

Look forward to immigration officers legally being allowed to commit crimes!

Oh, and police and prison officers too. Nothing like these groups of people having actual legal licence to actually commit crimes.

Great thread by @bricksilk at https://twitter.com/bricksilk/status/1309185552143482880?s=19.

Every time I see such a thread from him, I'm grateful all over again that he is Lord @bricksilk. We're lucky to have peers like him.