Speaking from the back benches of the House of Commons, Tom Watson, the deputy chairman of the Labour Party, called on the Metropolitan Police to reopen a closed criminal inquiry into paedophilia.
The White House also insists it is up to the Department of Justice to decide whether to reopen a previously closed criminal inquiry into whether charges should be brought against those responsible.
According to the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and the public broadcasters WDR and NDR, citing information from the closed parliamentary inquiry, the BND's biggest listening post at Bad Aibling in Bavaria "was abused for years for NSA spying on European states".
Mr. Thompson appeared Friday before a separate closed-door inquiry in London into the cancellation of the "Newsnight" segment last year.
March 26 - The IPCC says an inquest could be impossible because of "disclosure issues" surrounding police evidence, suggesting a behind-closed-doors inquiry instead.
The F.B.I. is trying to determine who leaked details of conversations intercepted by the National Security Agency that were discussed on June 18 at the House and Senate intelligence committees' closed-door inquiry.
LONDON — Mark Thompson, the president and chief executive of The New York Times Company, testified Friday in a closed-door inquiry investigating why the British Broadcasting Corporation canceled a contentious report into sexual abuse, a Times spokesman said.
But The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, attributing its account to "persons familiar with the closed-door inquiry" that the judge had conducted into the matter since the beginning of the week, reported today that the juror favored Mr. Edwards and the six other defendants and had refused to participate in deliberations.
Since then, Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre has ordered the city's public security commission to hold a closed-door inquiry into the conduct of the force and its chief.
Meanwhile, the Senate has launched a closed-door inquiry to investigate whether the CIA was negligent in the run-up to the bombing and Peter Quinn, that scheming heartthrob of the international sniper set, has holed himself up, chest and abs duly oiled in the manner of top-level intelligence agents everywhere, in a room in Caracas, where he is building a bomb.
