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Gordon Rayner and Duncan Gardham report in the Telegraph.co.uk that UK intelligence agencies are complaining that their officers are being diverted from intelligence work to prepare for lawsuits alleging human rights violations. One's view of this may depend on attitudes towards the alleged violations - and an assessment of the specific claims being litigated.
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Writing in the context of the discovery process in civil litigation, Anne Kershaw and Joseph Howie write in Law Technology News of the fallacy of reviewing identical copiesof electronic messages as if each were, in effect, a separate paper document.In civil litigation, this increases delay and cost.In the context of intelligence analysis - particularly open-source [...]
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Via WikiNews:Iran and Britain expel diplomats after Iranian presidential election.We note that while attacks from President Obama's political right have urged him to be more aggressive, in the UK David Cameron has reminded the P.M. that the "Iranian elections [are] an internal Iranian conflict, between Iranians and other Iranians." If this ends with a full [...]
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