"Special branch [police intelligence] complained that it could not burn paper quickly enough," the court was told.
Mr. Stobie said he had been "set up" by security forces and claimed the Special Branch internal intelligence division of the Royal Ulster Constabulary had planted weapons on him.
When the executive branch misused intelligence to make a case for war, mismanaged an occupation that went off without a plan and introduced torture into national policy, Republican leaders in Congress failed to claim oversight and investigate abuses.
The IPCC has also been asked to look at claims, uncovered in an internal memo, that the Greater Manchester Special Branch wanted intelligence on "groups and individuals" likely to attend another hearing.
"What branch of intelligence apparatus is IRS?" May Wee asked.
"A lot of [the reporting] was predominantly useless information," one former official told committee investigators after working for the "Reporting Branch" of Intelligence and Analysis unit of the DHS from 2006 to 2010.
Parts of it, such as the judiciary, the diplomatic corps, state-run media and varied branches of intelligence, proved stiffly resistant to Islamist influence.
A White House statement released on Wednesday said the proposed expansion of briefings would undermine "a long tradition spanning decades of comity between the branches regarding intelligence matters".
But President Obama has threatened to veto the bill, saying that expanding briefings would undermine “a long tradition spanning decades of comity between the branches regarding intelligence matters".
And each has sub-branches: general security has three – including the feared Palestine branch – and military intelligence has several, among them the notorious Branch 235.
