In a 500-page report, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) called for urgent improvements in the accountability of undercover firearms operations after finding that a lack of audio or video material "made it difficult, and on occasions impossible, to know with absolute certainty what happened".
Related: Miliband: I won't have Labour government if it means SNP deal Aside from one and a half debates, stage-managed to the point of absolute stiltedness, the party leaders have shown such a terminal unwillingness to be seen in each other's company that I've started to develop three key theories about them.
Even the Liberal Democrats have joined this rhetorical arms race, ripping apart their threadbare integrity.
"For domestic political reasons, the Germans will only act in an absolute crisis," bemoaned another EU diplomat.
Asked how she felt about the likely Conservative majority, Lucas said: "I react with absolute horror, as I think people are doing up and down the country.
"Plunkett has paid a heavy price for putting his own interests above the integrity of the market and Barclays customerr.
"He had an absolute focus on bread and butter issues, and because of that was able to focus on visionary things, like building the Royal theatre, or fixing up the historic buildings at Macquarie street, saving the rainforests, introducing anti-discrimination laws, but above all I think saving the rainforest," Carr said.
Well, actually: a 2005 State Department directive said "It is the Department's general policy that normal day-to-day operations be conducted on an authorized [Automated Information System], which has the proper level of security control to provide nonrepudiation, authentication and encryption, to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the resident information".
But the Law Council of Australia said there were no "clear and compelling reasons" for the bill to grant retrospective legal immunity, and that it "casts doubt on the integrity" of the way environmental protections are implemented.
This is not just a breach of the solemn and absolute prohibition of torture to which the US has committed itself in international treaties: it is a terrible political and moral mistake.
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