The Intelligence and Security Committee which oversees Britain’s Security Services (MI5, SIS, and GCHQ) has come under sustained scrutiny for its perceived reluctance to exert scrutiny over those it is tasked with watching. Andrew Defty argues that recent events show the need to change the appointments procedure in order to buck the trend of appointing establishment figures who aren’t known for asking ‘difficult questions’
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© 2013 The Author. Oversight of intelligence and security agencies has become of significant interes...
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This article considers the growing parliamentary scrutiny of the intelligence and security agencies....
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The Wright reforms have been widely credited with revitalising Parliamentary Select Committees. Howe...
In the wake of 9/11, the war in Iraq and the terrorist attacks in London, the Westminster parliament...
In the last few years, a number of significant, and often troubling, changes to the top-level manage...
In February of this year, the then-Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) – the body...
The establishment of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) in 1994 for the first time allowe...
In a recent speech, Lord Macdonald, the former Director of Public Prosecutions, was critical of the ...
Revelations from Edward Snowden about the scope of intelligence activities in the UK have led to ren...
Recent events at the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), the Parliamentary body tasked with h...
© 2013 The Author. Oversight of intelligence and security agencies has become of significant interes...
Sean Kippin and the Democratic Audit team assess the ways in which the UK’s four main security servi...
The only two female members of the Intelligence and Security Committee are leaving the Commons at th...
Last month, MI5 Director General Andrew Parker appeared on BBC Radio 4 to make the case for intellig...
This article considers the growing parliamentary scrutiny of the intelligence and security agencies....
Since 2007, candidates for 50 of the most senior public appointments in the UK have been scrutinised...
The nature of openness in government continues to be explored by academics and public managers alike...
The Wright reforms have been widely credited with revitalising Parliamentary Select Committees. Howe...
In the wake of 9/11, the war in Iraq and the terrorist attacks in London, the Westminster parliament...
In the last few years, a number of significant, and often troubling, changes to the top-level manage...