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  Iraq document leak 18 June 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The documents were leaked on 18 September 2004 to the Daily Telegraph in an article titled "Secret papers show Blair was warned of Iraq chaos".
British Foreign Office political director Peter Ricketts said in one of the memos.
Tony Dodge, an Iraq expert at the University of London, said, "The documents show what official inquiries in Britain already have, that the case of weapons of mass destruction was based on thin intelligence and was used to inflate the evidence to the level of mendacity.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UK_Cabinet_Office_Documents   (1006 words)

  
 User:Kevin Baas/Information - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Meanwhile, documents leaked last month suggest that the WMD threat was also basically spin - a way of selling the war while the Government was actually embarked on a policy of regime change.
The Foreign Office legal team was reminding him regime change was illegal.
The leaked documents give a clear indication what the Prime Minister was thinking.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User:Kevin_Baas/Information   (0 words)

  
 MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | Police quiz temp over Cabinet Office leaks
Ms Newell was supplied to the Cabinet Office by Josephine Sammons, an employment agency in the City of London.
Cabinet ministers and their advisers were baffled by the leaks and claimed the newspaper was paying for the documents, an accusation it denied at the time.
The individual concerned was assigned to the Cabinet Office through an employment agency and the assignment was terminated immediately following the arrest.
media.guardian.co.uk /site/story/0,14173,1328825,00.html   (0 words)

  
 Declassified British Documents Reveal U.K. Support for Indonesian Invasion and Occupation of East Timor
(See Document 10, Document 11 and Document 13) On October 24, 1975, HM Embassy told the FCO that it had "suggested to the Australians" that it was "pointless" to raise the British deaths with the Indonesians.
(Document 30) The FCO's purpose, it appears, was to protect British interests at the UN while avoiding upset to the Indonesians (and to the U.S. and Australian governments).
In this telegram the UK Mission to the UN states its alarm at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's proposed "formula" on the July 17 Indonesian incorporation of East Timor.
www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB174/indexuk.htm   (0 words)

  
 CABINET PAPERS Complete classes from the CAB & PREM series in the Public Record Office Series Three: CAB 128 & CAB 129 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
These documents form the apex of the whole governmental and Civil Service structure; of the thousands of documents generated by the machinery of government and its many departments, only the most important and highly concentrated reached the Cabinet.
Moreover, when Churchill took up office for the second time, it was noticeable that he had abandoned a number of his previous policies in favour of ideas introduced by the proceeding Labour government.
The documents contained within the Cabinet Minutes and Memoranda allow this hypothesis to be challenged or reinforced by the scrutiny of the debates and decisions at the highest reaches of government.
www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk /collections_az/Cab-3-3/description.aspx   (0 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | New evidence over Diana death car
Cabinet Office documents written after Princess Diana's death have been released, giving differing reasons why she was in the car in which she died.
The papers, released by the Cabinet Office under the Freedom of Information Act, contain memos between officials and politicians, including Prime Minister Tony Blair, after the event.
He said it was "extremely difficult" to detail what the eventual cost would be, and that the department had been "exercising all the restraint we can", but estimated it would be around £4m to £5m.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/4352467.stm   (0 words)

  
 GNN - Government News Network
The Identity Cards Bill includes a new offence of possessing or controlling false identity documents, which would provide the police with the means to disrupt the activities of organised criminals at an earlier stage of their activities.
A table detailing the latest estimate for the annual cost of identity fraud to the UK economy, and giving a detailed breakdown of the component parts of the new figure, is available at http://www.identitytheft.org.uk.
The Telecommunications UK Fraud Forum (TUFF - http://www.tuff.co.uk), is a forum for members of the telecommunication industry to meet and exchange information in respect to fraudulent activities being committed against communication service providers.
www.gnn.gov.uk /Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=186342&NewsAreaID=2   (0 words)

  
 Office of Public Sector Information
The Office of Public Sector Information is at the heart of information policy, setting standards, delivering access and encouraging re-use of public sector information.
The Office of Public Sector Information and The National Archives are to merge.
Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO) continues to exist and fulfill its core activities including responsibility for the publication of legislation and the management of Crown copyright operating from within OPSI.
www.opsi.gov.uk   (0 words)

  
 Analysis of Leaked UK Cabinet Office Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In an analysis of these documents Michael Lewis of Christ's College, Cambridge referred readers to an archive of these supposedly to be found at Cryptome, "leaks-brief.zip".
In addition, the documents demonstrate the scale of the misgivings expressed by the Prime Minister’s advisors to him and his ministers around the time that he committed to assisting regime change.
That the UK envisaged that regime change might involve invasion, rather than an internal coup or the assassination of Saddam Hussein, is made clear by a further document, marked ‘Secret’ and entitled ‘Iraq: Options Paper’, produced on 8 March 2002 by the Overseas and Defence Secretariat of the Cabinet Office.
cryptome.quintessenz.org /mirror/leaks-brief.htm   (0 words)

  
 Defend George Galloway
Representatives of the newspaper have also admitted that the documents upon which it based its stories were now proven to be forgeries.
The two "oldest" documents - dated 1992 and 1993 - were actually written within the past few months, according to a chemical analysis of their ink.
These are based largely on documents allegedly discovered by a reporter for the Daily Telegraph in a burned-out building in Baghdad.
homepages.lshtm.ac.uk /antiwar/galloway.html   (0 words)

  
 Raw Story: Path of War Timeline
Several leaked documents show the British government considering the implications of shifting from an Iraq policy based on containment to one of regime change, along with considerations to be addressed in supporting Bush's objectives.
The first notice of the documents’ existence came when Elisabetta Burba, a reporter for Panorama, a glossy Italian weekly owned by the publishing empire of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, received a telephone call from an Italian businessman and security consultant whom she believed to have once been connected to Italian intelligence.
Details of the aggressive surveillance operation, which involves interception of the home and office telephones and the emails of UN delegates in New York, are revealed in a document leaked to The Observer.
www.rawstory.com /exclusives/muriel/path_of_war_timeline_613.htm   (0 words)

  
 UK Torture Memos
It's not the al-Jazeera Memo, but these are some more documents that the UK Government are trying to suppress with the threat of prosecution under the Official Secrets Act.
The second document is the text of a legal opinion from the Foreign Office's Michael Wood, arguing that the use by intelligence services of information extracted through torture does not constitute a violation of the UN Convention Against Torture.
I was summoned to the UK for a meeting on 8 March 2003.
www.informationclearinghouse.info /article11407.htm   (0 words)

  
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They are, first, to make the UK the best and safest environment for doing e-commerce by the end of this year.
The UK experience and the work that we have done is to understand our customers better, understand their needs and that’s been a long-standing component of our overall agenda.
The UK Government has seen this as a crucial component of ensuring that we have an effective environment for e-commerce, and to be a leader in this process, and at the forefront of efficient services and cost effective programs.
www.egov.vic.gov.au /Documents/ukperspective.doc   (0 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | Ministers were told premier was seen as stooge
The Cabinet Office told ministers a year before the war in Iraq that the external opposition, made up of Mr Allawi's Iraqi National Accord and Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, was "weak, divided and lacks domestic credibility".
A coup attempt in 1996 allegedly organised by Mr Allawi, a neurosurgeon who was trained in Britain, in tandem with the CIA ended in "wholesale executions", according to the paper, which was prepared by the Overseas and Defence Secretariat in March 2002.
The documents also expressed concern over the possibility that the Americans would choose Mr Chalabi as the leader of Iraq after the ousting of Saddam Hussein.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/24/wus124.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/09/24/ixhome.html   (0 words)

  
 'Just World News' by Helena Cobban: Global outbreak of candor?
The documents also show that the people in the Cabinet Office were quite aware of the flimsiness of the evidence indicating that Saddam had WMDs in the pre-war period.
It is notable, however, that the DT is a rightwing, generally pro-Tory newspaper; and the article about the documents was published in the lead-up to a Labour Party conference at which it was expected that Blair would come under a lot of criticism for his solidly pro-US stance on the war.
In this internal document from the Overseas and Defence Secretariat, date March 8, 2003, the relevant ODS mandarins laid out an entire political-strategic game-plan for how the preparations should proceed.
justworldnews.org /archives/000914.html   (0 words)

  
 Leaked Cabinet Office paper: Conditions for military action
The paper, produced by the Cabinet Office on July 21, 2002, is incomplete because the last page is missing.
This is particularly important for the UK because it is necessary to create the conditions in which we could legally support military action.
It is already clear that the UK could not generate a Division in time for an operation in January 2003, unless publicly visible decisions were taken very soon.
www.informationclearinghouse.info /article9112.htm   (0 words)

  
 The October War and U.S. Policy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Document 17: Memcon between Kissinger and Ambassador Huang Zhen, PRC Liaison Office, 6 October 1973, 9:10- 9:30 p.m.
The first page of this document is mostly illegible--except for a few scraps on U.S. supply of Sidewinder (air-to-air) missiles and bomb racks--but it provides interesting detail on the early moments of the war, such as Israeli cabinet debates on the question of whether to preempt or not.
This document shows the Saudis pressing the European Community (EC) to "use their influence to change America's policy in the Middle East." Oil would be used as a weapon against the U.S. airlift but the production "decrease … will hurt the EC countries first." (Note 38)
www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB98   (0 words)

  
 UK EU Presidency 2005 Home
News - an archive of all documents published during the UK Presidency.
The official website of the UK EU Presidency 2005 will remain online for reference but will no longer be updated.
All documents published during the Presidency will continue to be available via the 'News' section.
www.eu2005.gov.uk   (0 words)

  
 HMSO - UK Legislation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The site includes the full text of all legislation enacted by the UK Parliament and delegated legislation (Statutory Instruments) whether this applied to the United Kingdom as a whole or only to constituent parts of the UK (eg Scotland).
The aim is to publish these documents on the Internet simultaneously or at least within 24 hours of their publication in printed from.
However, any document which is especially complex in terms of its size or its typography may take longer to prepare.
www.hmso.gov.uk /legislation/uk.htm   (0 words)

  
 Cover Pages: Election Markup Language (EML) Recommended to Member States by Council of Europe.
According to a communiqué from John Borras (e-Government Unit, UK Cabinet Office), the EML version 4 draft "accommodates all the perceived requirements" from the forty-some CoE countries, "including referenda, as well as lots of lessons learnt from the UK pilots," so this version meets a very comprehensive set of requirements.
The relating document entitled EML v4.0d Schema Descriptions' lists the schemas and schema descriptions to be used in conjunction with this specification." See the file listing for contents of the ZIP distribution file; it contains thirty-eight (38) XML Schema files, the Data Dictionary, and the principal prose documents in PDF format.
This document provides an explanation of the core schemas used throughout, definitions of the simple and complex datatypes, plus the EML schemas themselves.
xml.coverpages.org /ni2004-11-10-a.html   (0 words)

  
 Defra, UK - About Defra - Access to information - Personal date: Data Handling Guarantee, Data Protection Act 1998
The Cabinet Office's Performance and Innovation Unit (PIU) report Privacy and data-sharing: the way forward for public services recommended that public bodies should have a public service guarantee on data handling to inform people of their rights when they supply personal information to the public sector.
For example it would be helpful to know the subject matter of the information, details of the offices with whom you have been in contact and approximate dates of the contact.
Further documents were sent 6 days after the 40-day deadline in one case.
www.defra.gov.uk /corporate/opengov/personaldata.htm   (0 words)

  
 Indymedia UK - Anti-war protesters brake into Cabinet Office minutes after Queen Speech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Police said three women were arrested inside the Cabinet Office and a man was detained in the reception area at about 1pm on Tuesday.
The protesters are understood to have sneaked by security personnel at the main entrance before donning outfits covered in blood to launch a "die in" protest against the war.
Last night, a spokesman for the Cabinet Office, which houses the Joint Intelligence Committee, said it was carrying out an urgent security review.
www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2004/11/301856.html   (0 words)

  
 UK Resilience - EP - Business Continuity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This duty is an integral part of the Act's wider contribution to building the UK's resilience to disruptive challenges.
The CMI's survey report, which was supported this year by the Cabinet Office and Continuity Forum, emphasises the importance of robust, flexible business continuity planning which is regularly rehearsed and able to handle impacts on staff and skills as well as technology and premises.
General enquiries: Cabinet Office, 9 Whitehall, London SW1A 2DD.
www.ukresilience.info /preparedness/businesscontinuity/index.shtm   (0 words)

  
 BBC News | KEY DOCUMENTS | The Balfour Declaration
TV You are in: In Depth: Israel and the Palestinians: key documents
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 was the first significant declaration by a world power in favour of a Jewish "national home" in what was known as Palestine.
Links to more key documents stories are at the foot of the page.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/in_depth/middle_east/israel_and_the_palestinians/key_documents/1682961.stm   (0 words)

  
 Spy Blog: Cabinet Office Minister Jim Murphy claims only "about 50 representations" regarding the Legislative and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Cabinet Minister Jim Murphy has yet again failed to provide any firm proposals for constitutional safeguards to primary legislation or "constititional" Acts of Parliament when questioned on Tuesday by several MPs about the controversial Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill 2006.
Astonishingly, the Cabinet Office does not seem to have a central email address for general enquiries from the public, or one for contacting the Ministers or their staff, unlike other Government Departments.
N.B. the sub-sections of the Contact Us page on the Cabinet Office website seem badly designed, given that this Department, and the Minister Jim Murphy in particular, are actually responsible for "e-Government" and "Government Communications" etc.
www.spy.org.uk /spyblog/2006/03/cabinet_office_minister_jim_mu.html   (0 words)

  
 Investigators want to search office of former official Hall
Justice Cabinet general counsel Luke Morgan said in a letter to the attorney general's office that he is unaware of any wrongdoing by Hall.
In a reply letter to Stumbo's office on Tuesday, Morgan said the only reason state police secured the office after Hall's resignation was because he had been subpoenaed.
Stumbo spokeswoman Vicki Glass said access to the office would not harm security efforts, because attorneys general around the country are entitled to view homeland security material as the states' top law enforcement officers.
www.courier-journal.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050617/NEWS0104/506170452/1008/NEWS01   (0 words)

  
 Invest to Save Budget (ISB)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Invest to Save Budget (ISB) is a joint Treasury/Cabinet Office initiative with an aim to create sustainable improvements in the capacity to deliver public services in a more joined up manner.
was launched at the ISB Conference on the 15 June The document is designed to showcase the diverse contribution the third sector can make to service delivery and demonstrate the nature of the partnerships the ISB has helped to foster.
The Chancellor announced today that a new Office of Charity and Third Sector Finance is to be established in HM Treasury bringing together all aspects of tax, spending and financial services policy relating to the third sector, including charities, voluntary and community groups, social enterprises, co-operatives and mutuals.
www.isb.gov.uk /hmt.isb.application.2/index.asp   (0 words)

  
 Cabinet Warrants of Office - Index
Each Member of the Cabinet has a 'Warrant of Office', setting out their role and responsibilities.
There are 10 members of the Cabinet which is chaired by the Executive Leader.
The Cabinet is supported by 4 Cabinet Secretaries, an Aide-de-camp and a Project Head.
www.tameside.gov.uk /corpgen1/warrantoff.htm   (0 words)

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