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MI5 British Security Service apply for Secret court hearing, closed
material proceeding (CMP) in case of former British Agent Martin
McGartland.
No British Government has ever stood by those who stood by it -
unless forced to. The Martin McGartland case is the best evidence of
that, he did his bit and now he is just an embarrassment that will be
side-lined ...... a very dirty war that for some is never ending.
This case was in the news only a week or so ago. There are no issues
of 'National Security' in this case but it shows how MI5 and Home
Office will use CMP to Lie, Cover up and break the law just so theycan conceal their own wrongdoing.
MI5 allegedly applies for secret court session after
informant sues for being denied protection
Former IRA mole accuses Home Office of cover-up and claims he
was denied medical treatment after being shot by IRA hit team
The Independent - Ian Burrell, Monday 06 May 2013
MI5 has allegedly applied for a controversial secret court hearing
after being sued by a former IRA mole who claims he has been denied
medical treatment after being shot in a reprisal attack.
Martin McGartland, originally from west Belfast, has been creditedwith saving the lives of 50 police officers and soldiers in Northern
Ireland as a spy within the IRA providing intelligence to the special
branch of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
He is suing MI5 and the Home Office for failing to support him after
he was attacked and repeatedly shot by an IRA hit team who tracked
him to a safe house in North Tyneside in 1999.
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Mr McGartland has told The Independent that solicitors acting for the
Home Office, the government department responsible for the Security
Service, have applied to have the matter dealt with by a Closed
Material Procedure (CMP) hearing.
At CMPs, due to come into force shortly with the introduction of the
Justice and Security Act 2013, claimants must be represented before
the judge by special advocates who have been cleared for security.
Such a hearing would mean that neither Mr McGartland or his
lawyers were able to attend.
Labour, which says CMPs deviate from the “tradition of open and fair justice”, has called for the use of such closed proceedings to be
limited unless a judge agrees a fair verdict cannot be reached by any
other means.
The Law Society president, Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, has also raised
objections to CMPs on the grounds that they undermine the essential
principle of justice that all parties are entitled to see and challenge all
the evidence placed before the court.
CMPs are seen by the Government as a way of bringing before a
judge information which, for security reasons, cannot be revealed in
open court.
Mr McGartland said that funding for treatment he was receiving for
the post-traumatic stress disorder he suffered after the assassination
attempt had been stopped. He claimed the secret hearing was designedto cover up the Home Office’s failure to meet its duty of care, rather
than to protect genuine state secrets.
“This is being done despite my legal case against them being related
to their removing funding for my medical treatment, which they were
funding after my 1999 shooting,” he told The Independent. “They
removed the medical funding even after they were supplied two
medical reports stating that I required a further three to five years of
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treatment. That resulted in a serious deterioration in my condition and
it also led to my now requiring round-the-clock care, help and
support. In other words MI5 are going to use CMP solely to cover up
their own embarrassment and wrongdoing and not, as the Governmenthas been claiming, in cases that relate to ‘National Security’.”
Mr McGartland has become a high-profile IRA mole, with his
experiences forming the basis of the 2008 film 50 Dead Men
Walking, named after the number of lives he is said to have saved.
His cover was blown in 1991 when he fell under suspicion and was
“arrested” by the IRA before being taken for interrogation. Believing
he was about to be murdered after eight hours of questioning, he
threw himself from a third-floor window. He suffered serious head
injuries but was rescued by locals who called an ambulance.
Although the security forces gave him a new identity and a home in
England, he was outspoken in criticising what he saw as failures in
the campaign to counteract terrorism.
Mr McGartland believes that his willingness to speak out about his
experiences has contributed to the Government’s decision to stop
paying for his medical and psychiatric care.
A Home Office spokesman said: “There are ongoing legal
proceedings in this case and therefore it would be inappropriate to
comment.”
Readers Comments
roobosh • 9 days ago
Exactly how does this pertain to national security? A man is suing
MI5 for failing to support him after he was shot, which happened 14
years ago.
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Hotdangdiggidydawg • 9 days ago
I do like these feel good stories about rats that get their comeuppance
jaberwokie • 9 days ago
The secret services always want hearing behind doors. In Northern
Ireland the police and military nearly always sided with the parties
that were not catholic.
Gato Prato • 9 days ago
Perfidious Albion. Whats new?
jaberwokie Gato Prato • 9 days ago
Ian C. Purdie - Sydney • 9 days ago
"In other words MI5 are going to use CMP solely to cover up their
own embarrassment and wrongdoing and not, as the Government has
been claiming, in cases that relate to ‘National Security’.”
Why does that have a ring of truth about it? Quite probably the
government handbook has a whole chapter devoted to these scenarios
and how to proceed forward.
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Ken Huggard • 9 days ago
An ugly war where people operated outside the law ,murder wascommitted by all sides and there was no shortage of rats of all shades
who lived of the detritus. .
platypus56 • 9 days ago
Up until the 1970s people who worked for MI5 did not in many cases
receive a pension, as outlined by the late spycatcher Peter Wright. No
wonder they blow the whistle in the media to get some money.
English pensions are not indexed, the government is busy stripping
cash from every quarter and dismantling the welfare net. We're all in
it together as long as we went to Eton or Oxbridge..and even many of
the old school spies turned out to be traitors.
Good to know Perfidious Albion is alive and kicking.
middle_england • 9 days ago
Here we go...the Orwellian Courts have begun,
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Now you won't be able to see the evidence, challenge it in court or
have your own lawyer. Instead the Government, in all their
"generosity" will appoint one for you.
Welcome to the brave new world of the "Justice" and "Security" Bill
Yoolander • 10 days ago
A very dirty undeclared war where just about everyone was to some
degree - expendable.
No British Government has ever stood by those who stood by it.-
unless forced to - he did his bit and now he is just an embarrassment
that will be sidelined ......a very dirty war that for some is never
ending.
Ian C. Purdie - Sydney Yoolander • 9 days ago
Too true, the same applies here. Many an Afghanistan veteran is
discovering that.
Guest • 10 days ago
All life is not sacred, if you are an MP or a non-elected Lordie. or
Lordette. Well anybody but a politicians life is not sacred.
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Secret Court to stop the information coming out, or a secret Court to
supress freedom from coming out?
Check out S14 and George Galloway, whom used his maiden speech
to ilustrate such happenings.
I am not a fan most the time of George, but his maiden speech was
spot on.
Yep, you can be an agent and locked away without a trial to stop the
truth coming out.
I believe the man is still under the Mental Health lock-up to preventany trial, according to the medics for HMG he is a paranoid
schizophrenic.
Stops the politicians being named in corruption and deals.
A top operator for the Ulster, whom sometimes had to safeguard his
position by giving not too much about the IRA he mixed with too.
Erm if he was a paranoid schizophrenic would they have employed
him in the first place as a top operator in a unit with higher
psychological checks on entry than the SAS-No!
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Yes you can be someone that knew too much and given a sentence
without trial for knowing a little too much, happened to me. I did get
a verbal apology at the end of twenty years, but no written one, and
even had the acceptance given by top docs the condition never existed.
Meanwhile all I knew about was a MP or two and a few political men
with an hidden social life preparing a firework spectacular. My then
wife was told to get out of the room, she protested, I saw the handle
move ever so slight, pointed in silence to the man from the Ministry atthe handle, he crept to it after a few minutes, pulled the handle and
she was there trying to listen, "he said if you want to continue living
go upstairs and do not come down"
She sh@t herself and was never the same again with me. Always that
barrier afterwards. In her village ignorance said you should havenever asked him to come and dictate to me in my house.
Cannot say anything else as hey there is a justice system and a legal
system and one other, as able in hiding the truth as that holiday camp
for terrorists in Cuba. Not all there are guilty either.
Not all are guilty in this country either. Not all are ill.
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britbob • 10 days ago
People that have worked for MI5 to prevent death and destructionfrom acts of terrorism will need to be protected.
It is a sad state of affairs that cases like this have had to be brought
before the courts
kawasakiman • 10 days ago
"...secret court..."
A very dodgy process which was always going to be misused.
realvikingking kawasakiman • 10 days ago
What should we expect from the government of sleeze and
towelfolders?
Story link; http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mi5-
allegedly-applies-for-secret-court-session-after-informant-sues-for-
being-denied-protection-8605107.html