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 Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 1:30 pm Post subject: MI5 & MI6:Cutting our budgets would increase terror risk |
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excerpts from: Spy chiefs play terror card in bid to save budgets
Spending review triggers savage Cabinet infighting
by Jill Sherman, Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson, The Times, 23 April 2013
| Quote: | Public safety will be put at risk if spending on the security services is cut any further in the drive to save an extra £11.5 billion, George Osborne has been warned.
MI5 and MI6 chiefs have told the Chancellor that Britain would be more vulnerable to a terrorist attack if they have to find additional savings, The Times has learnt.
Days after the Boston bombings, they argued that they have already had to scale back operations to a worrying degree because of a spending freeze imposed three years ago.
One minister said: "Their argument is that there has not, since 7/7, been a major outrage in this country but that's not because people haven't been trying. They are saying, 'You will put safety at risk if you cut our budget'." [...]
The current threat level is "substantial", meaning that a terrorist threat is "a strong possibility", but security agencies view the present situation as volatile and unpredictable.
There is great uncertainty about al-Qaeda activity in North Africa and Syria, a series of high-profile domestic terrorism cases before the courts and the continually evolving danger from cyber attacks and cyber espionage. |
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