2000 – British minister admits bugging car used by Gerry Adams and Sinn Féin leadership talks team

BY MICHAEL PIERSE

MORE PROOF has emerged this week that the securocrats are tightening their grip – or grasping at straws – on British policy in Ireland.

A British Government review group – consisting solely of representatives from the Northern Ireland Office, the Home Office, the Six-County judiciary and the RUC – decided, along with Secretary of State Peter Mandelson, that the Diplock non-jury trial system should be retained in the Six Counties. This coincides with other British legislation intended to remove the right to trial by jury altogether from British law.

The British Government's refusal to repeal the repressive and widely condemned Prevention of Terrorism Act and the introduction of even more draconian 'anti-terrorism' legislation early next year also reveal that the securocrat element in Britain still exercise a vast amount of political influence at the highest levels of power.

Former Secretary of State Mo Mowlam (pictured) admitted on Monday night's BBC programme, You Only Live Once, that her role in relation to British Intelligence was far from benign during her tenure as direct ruler in the North.

Her admission that she had approved the bugging of a car that was used to transport members of the Sinn Féin leadership during talks last year was described by party President Gerry Adams as a “hugely serious breach of faith” after the device was discovered.