Snow Crash
05-22-2009, 08:44 PM
Man behind expenses leak revealed
The man who arranged for leaked MPs' expenses details to be given to the Daily Telegraph has been named.
Former SAS man John Wick acted as a broker, passing the details from an anonymous source to the newspaper.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8064731.stm
Top man. This is very encouraging. Not just that he blew the whistle, but that he is former military, and also that he is coming out and saying stuff like this:
Mr Wick added that he felt there was an injustice in how much information the government wanted to have about the public, while they wanted to keep their own affairs secret.
He said: "We've all had - you as the media, we as the public - have had concerns about the expenses and how they've managed it, purely because of how they've handled our request for information.
"We've reached the stage in society where they want to know everything about us, I think we're entitled to know about them."
I guess even the most loyal of Britain's servants can see things are getting bad. About time.
The man who arranged for leaked MPs' expenses details to be given to the Daily Telegraph has been named.
Former SAS man John Wick acted as a broker, passing the details from an anonymous source to the newspaper.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8064731.stm
Top man. This is very encouraging. Not just that he blew the whistle, but that he is former military, and also that he is coming out and saying stuff like this:
Mr Wick added that he felt there was an injustice in how much information the government wanted to have about the public, while they wanted to keep their own affairs secret.
He said: "We've all had - you as the media, we as the public - have had concerns about the expenses and how they've managed it, purely because of how they've handled our request for information.
"We've reached the stage in society where they want to know everything about us, I think we're entitled to know about them."
I guess even the most loyal of Britain's servants can see things are getting bad. About time.