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With the last few days manoeuvring...
Jul. 17th, 2020 05:42 pm...And the loss of the Chair of the Parliamentary Intelligence Committee, the government leaks the fact that Labour may have benefitted from Russian-leaked information before... any other revelations are pointed to by the Russia Report. It won't do more than that; but that is more than enough and all the dots will be joined. The Intel community already knows all the details. And I'm not sure they can be bribed further given those details.
So it's damage limitation time. I expect all sorts of smokescreens to be run out. Given the lay-offs from the Fourth Estate after the Covid crisis maybe they are hoping that there won't be any investigative journalists left. They have the Beeb by the balls so I'm sure any negative stories can be spiked there. But the Grauniad, The Byline Times, Private Eye, and all the foreign press... all of it... forensically examining every aspect. And all the foreign security and intelligence services too.
Nothing in recent history has this political and intelligence scandal potential. Nothing. And Five, Six, and GCHQ now have to cover their backs given the Five Eye Network and NATO already know all the details.
Really, how long does Cummings think he can hold on? Even with some small minority of folk in the security services onside? Gatekeepers can be bypassed. Even BoJo and Cummings can be bypassed. But if it comes to that it won't be nice and I will probably have preceded Cummings to the scaffold simply by dint of sounding posher than should be allowed to live.
So it's damage limitation time. I expect all sorts of smokescreens to be run out. Given the lay-offs from the Fourth Estate after the Covid crisis maybe they are hoping that there won't be any investigative journalists left. They have the Beeb by the balls so I'm sure any negative stories can be spiked there. But the Grauniad, The Byline Times, Private Eye, and all the foreign press... all of it... forensically examining every aspect. And all the foreign security and intelligence services too.
Nothing in recent history has this political and intelligence scandal potential. Nothing. And Five, Six, and GCHQ now have to cover their backs given the Five Eye Network and NATO already know all the details.
Really, how long does Cummings think he can hold on? Even with some small minority of folk in the security services onside? Gatekeepers can be bypassed. Even BoJo and Cummings can be bypassed. But if it comes to that it won't be nice and I will probably have preceded Cummings to the scaffold simply by dint of sounding posher than should be allowed to live.
