Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament

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Group.png Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Formation1994
Parent organizationBritish House of Commons, House of Lords
TypeRegulator.jpg regulator
InterestsMI5, MI6, GCHQ, Joint Intelligence Committee
Membership• Malcolm Rifkind.jpeg Malcolm Rifkind
• Hazel Blears, June 2009.jpg Hazel Blears
• Robin Butler.jpg Robin Butler
• Menzies Campbell.jpg Menzies Campbell
• Mark Lucia.jpg Mark Field
•  George Howarth
• Julian Lewis MP.jpg Julian Lewis
• Michael Ancram.jpg Michael Ancram
•  Fiona Mactaggart
Nominal overseer the UK's main intelligence intelligence agencies such as MI5, MI6, GCHQ, JIC, DIS. Probably completely captured.

Official narrative

The Intelligence and Security Committee was established under the Intelligence Services Act 1994 to oversee the three main UK intelligence agencies: MI5, MI6 and GCHQ. It has since expanded its remit to include intelligence related elements of the Cabinet Office including the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC); the Assessments Staff; and the Intelligence, Security and Resilience Group. The committee also takes evidence from the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS).[1]

Capture

The ISC is an anomolous statutory committee rather than a normal parliamentary select committee. There was an unsuccessful attempt to bring the committee under the administration of parliament in July 2008.[2] The committee produces an unclassified annual report but its work is invariably conducted in secret. The pedigrees of some of the members of this committee suggest that they are establishment insiders hand appointed because their principal loyalty is to the deep state. The committee may well be 100% compromised.

7-7 Bombings

Why obfuscate a photo of suspects before sending it for "identification"?... and isn't this a question that Parliament's "Intelligence and Security Committee" should be interested in?

In 2009, the Intelligence and Security Committee held an inquiry into the 7/7 London Bombings, and noted that the picture of suspects Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer shown to Mohammed Junaid Babar for identification purposes to was of "poor quality". In fact, it was a black and white, lower contrast photo with and added noise. Moreover, it was so badly cropped as to remove parts of Mohammad Siddique Khan's nose and more than half of Shehzad Tanweer's head and body. The Guardian dryly noted in 2011 that "The committee appears not to have been aware of the original, very clear, colour photograph of both men."[3]

Membership

The UK Parliament appoints the nine members from both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, after considering nominations from the Prime Minister.


 

An Office Holder on Wikispooks

NameFrom
Robin Janvrin2015

 

Known members

6 of the 9 of the members already have pages here:

MemberDescription
Michael AncramLikely took over from Norman Lamont as European chair of Le Cercle.
Mark FieldSpooky British Conservative Party politician
George Howarth
Julian LewisBritish Conservative Party politician. Lewis has attended Le Cercle, and has been Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee since 2020.
Fiona Mactaggart
Malcolm RifkindBritish Conservative politician with many deep state connections
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References

  1. Intelligence and Security Committee, Cabinet Office, accessed 28 February 2010.
  2. "Intelligence and Security Committee — Should belong to the House — rejected". The Public Whip. 17 July 2008.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  3. http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/feb/21/mi5-cropped-7-7-bombings