(((Perfidious Albion... lo, even the jail cells are tapped.)))
Link: Davis calls for tighter controls over bugging | Terror threat to Britain | Guardian Unlimited.
David Davis, the shadow home secretary, today called the prime minister a "liar" over the MP bugging row, prompting demands for an apology from the Labour party.
Davis said that the claims that a police officer bugged a conversation between a Labour MP and a terrorism suspect in prison undermined assurances from Gordon Brown that MPs' conversations were not recorded. (((The Watergate premise – the President can secretly bug anybody he wants, but when it turns out his minions are secretly spying on other power brokers in the government, there's political hell to pay. America's silently waiting for a Congressman to get waterboarded – THEN it'll be "torture," and not before.)))
"These intercepts have broken a prime ministerial promise, involved the intercept of the justice whip, who works with Jack Straw, and nobody told the ministers," he told the BBC.
"This is a very serious issue. It is a breach of a prime ministerial undertaking to parliament and makes the prime minister a liar, basically."
He also called for proper controls surrounding surveillance in the UK to prevent it being abused. (((Who watches the custodians?)))
Harriet Harman, the leader of the Commons, called on Davis to apologise for his comments, saying that they were "unjustified".
Mark Kearney, a former police officer, told the BBC that he had recorded conversations between Sadiq Khan and his constituent Babar Ahmad at Woodhill prison, Buckinghamshire, under "significant pressure" from the Metropolitan police.
The justice secretary, Jack Straw, says that he was not aware of the incident until this weekend....
