Just an idle thought… it’s wryly amusing to consider what actually happened at the police station after Blair toadies Lord Levy and Ruth Turner were arrested by the Met.
Were they, like so many others, compelled to have their digitalised fingerprints and DNA samples taken, to be retained for ever in the megadatabase their own boss planned ?
UPDATE: It just gets better and better…. it’s looking like Scotland Yard has used the draconioan and much protested Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, that allows unprecedented snooping by police into electronic communications, against Downing St.
The arrest of one of Tony Blair’s top aides in the cash for honours row was made after fresh information was uncovered during a search of the Number 10 computer system, according to reports.
The investigation put police at loggerheads with politicians after Ruth Turner was arrested in a dawn swoop on her home.
The News Of The World said it was informed by sources within the Crown Prosecution Service that a “mole” within Downing Street told the police about potentially incriminating emails.
An independent IT expert was then sent in by detectives, with the permission of Downing Street, to look through communications records, it claimed. But the Sunday Telegraph suggested that detectives had obtained high-level permission to “hack” into the IT system remotely.
Bwahahahahaha.
That ‘high-level permission’ thing is just a figleaf to soothe Downing St’s wounded pride. The Met don’t need no steenkin’ high-lvel permission, those authoritarian idiots in New Labour already unthinkingly gave the police the tools to use against the government.
