WikiLeaks: Swedish government 'hid' anti-terror operations with America from Parliament

[Joanne98]

Source: Telegraph

The Swedish government asked American officials to keep intelligence-gathering “informal” to help avoid Parliamentary scrutiny, American diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks show.

The secret cables, seen by The Daily Telegraph, disclose how Swedish officials wanted discussions about anti-terrorism operations kept from public scrutiny.

They describe how officials from the Swedish Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Foreign Affairs had a “strong degree of satisfaction with current informal information sharing arrangements” with the American government.

Making the arrangement formal would result in the need for it to be disclosed to Parliament, they said.



Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8202745/WikiLeaks-Swedish-government-hid-anti-terror-operations-with-America-from-Parliament.html

[Sancho]

1. Now there's a revelation!

Before the end of all the released cables, Wikileaks may be the story of the decade.

[Art_from_Ark]

2. And this is the real reason why Sweden wants Assange

The "rape" charges are as bogus as a 3-dollar bill.

[Wingmasters]

7. looool

[Kolesar]

3. Hardly seems like a surprising matter

I detect huffery puffery

"They expressed a strong degree of satisfaction with current informal information sharing arrangements with the U.S., and wondered whether the putative advantages of an HSPD-6 agreement for Sweden would be offset by the risk that these existing informal channels, which cover a wide range of law enforcement and anti-terrorism co-operation, would be scrutinised more intensely by Parliament and perhaps jeopardised.

[formercia]

8. ...."and perhaps jeopardized."

They perhaps mean that Parliament will find their actions illegal? Who could have thought? :rofl:

[CJCRANE]

4. I wonder

if this "informal" intelligence-gathering knew anything about the Stockholm suicide bomber?

[kgnu_fan]

5. ha!

[eShirl]

6. Well, would you look at that.

k&r

[City Lights]

9. Interesting. Very, very interesting.

Rec'd.