Having been cleared by the parliamentary commissioner twice over false allegations, I understand the immense relief that Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind feel (Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw cleared of cash-for-access misconduct, 17 September).
Ofcom opened an investigation into the programme in question, a joint operation between Channel 4 and the Daily Telegraph, after Rifkind and Straw were cleared of cash-for-access allegations by Hudson and the standards committee of MPs in September.
"For what?" "For clearing me a path".
A key area of concern is the granting and renewing of security clearances; the spy investigations have shown that people can be cleared for access to secret data early in their careers and then never be re-examined.
"Vast stretches of rainforest needed to be cleared for access roads to the drill sites," she says.
So he made a policy decision, without pressure from David Cameron, not to get Coulson cleared for access to such material.
Most of the former Maralinga nuclear test site has been cleared for access, although a 412 square kilometre area remains closed off to permanent occupancy.
"We were tarred with the same brush," said Mait, who has led a two-year campaign among federal scientists and their professional associations to clear the path for access to gatherings.
"I think it's clear, though, that we still need to pass some legislation to make clear... that for access to the data that are collected, you should need a warrant, not just a CIA analyst's decision," Nadler said.
White hat means "cleared for track access".
"From their workstations anywhere in the world, government employees cleared for PRISM access may "task" the system and receive results from an Internet company without further interaction with the company's staff".
