UK ministers are exaggerating the terrorist threat, say MPs

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Source: The Independent

The government's assessment of the threat of terrorism in the UK is overstated and has undermined the case for imposing tough new anti-terror laws, an influential committee of MPs and peers has warned.

Ministers insist that Britain still faces a "public emergency" eight years after the 11 September attacks on America and has used it to justify a swathe of controversial legislation, including holding terror suspects without trial.

But members of Parliament's joint committee on human rights said that such a high level of threat was not credible because it had been continuously maintained for such a long period of time.

... The committee's report, published yesterday, called for a review of all terror legislation passed since 11 September and asked whether it was realistic to say the state of emergency which existed at the time still remained now.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ministers-are-exaggerating-the-terrorist-threat-say-mps-1928009.html

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1. Are they using Cheney and Bush as consultants?

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2. I'm shocked

Shocked, I tell you