This is an investigation into the alleged gratuitous release of information that is not in the public interest".
What an outrageous comment by the Met that the disclosure by the Guardian was an "alleged gratuitous release of information that is not in the public interest" (Met use Official Secrets Act to force hacking disclosure, 17 September).
"Far from being gratuitous harvesters of private information, in practice we focus our work very carefully and tightly against those who intend harm," he said, insisting that adequate safeguards were in place to protect innocent citizens.
"When someone like that makes gratuitous and false comments with no information, there comes a time when you have to stop and you have to fight because of who you are and what you have been all your life".
The first argues that torture never produces any valuable information, so it is gratuitous violence and thus immoral.
(The reader learns of this relationship early in the book, finding out that the writer has a Polish eagle tattooed on his chest -- arguably one of those tidbits of information that some might regard as gratuitous).
Procedures for data collection have been simplified with the elimination of gratuitous registers and forms in conjunction with the development and testing of a new health management information system (HMIS) known as the District Health Information Management System (DHIMS-2).
"This passage seems gratuitous," Mr. Giles said, "casting Murdoch in an unfavorable light without adding fresh information that advanced readers' understanding of the story".
Torturing a victim to extract secret information may be rationalised, but if there is no obvious gain why cause gratuitous pain?
And to give us the information, Lodge too often resorts to a style beloved of this reviewer's grandmother: the gratuitous -- and morbid -- biography.
