UK bomb plot arrests precipitated by anti-terror chief who keeps secrets worse than Biden
Great news: a terrorist plot to possibly bomb a night club and a shopping center in Great Britain has been thwarted.
But — the operation to arrest the suspects had to proceed earlier than planned after a British anti-terror chief’s blunder:
Twelve men have been arrested in the north west of England after Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism police officer sparked a security alert.
Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick said he “deeply regretted” revealing a secret document to photographers when he arrived for a briefing at No 10.
The document, clearly marked “secret”, carried an outline briefing on an ongoing counter-terrorism operation.
Here’s a photo via BBC News of Quick arriving for the meeting with the details of the secret operation visible to the public:
Quick has resigned because of the blunder.
Update
It occurred to me that there are some people in the United States who may not understand portions of the above story, so here’s that same news written so it will make sense to everyone in the White House and US State Department:
An Overseas Contingency Operation in London has prevented a man-caused disaster that was allegedly being planned by politically dissatisfied and possibly disenfranchised members of the global community.
The current detainees had to be taken into custody sooner than expected because a British official went all quasi Biden, so without a doubt the added haste resulted in a violation of the civil rights of one or more of the accused.
The British official was criticized and resigned even though he did nothing more than to level the playing field and break down the barrier between the haves and the have-nots.
The U.S. President was described as “relieved” after he was awakened and informed that the Queen’s iPod is safe.
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Must be related to Sandy Berger…uh Burgler…
I am willing to bet this man has seen the decay in UK. If this is what it took to get the news out so be it, perhaps an honorable man at the end of the day.
craig he stole the information? what
Doug,
i don’t recall biden ever leaking classified info aka leahy or feinstein, boxer etc? reminder please what biden did.
at anyrate I just don’t see how this is bad at this point. The deathcultists got rounded up and nobody died.
Good grief! That Bob Quick must be as dumb as a box of rocks! The file is outside of it’s jacket, not in a locked brief case and on top of stack of other stuff! Oh yeah, he must be a political appointee, no signs of a professional spook there.
Give the guy a break, his mind was full like the Kool-aid drinkers here in the States as to whay kind of puppy Odopey is getting.
Doug …
Enjoyed the “Americanization” of the British story … keep up the good work …
Bansharia …
I am also unsure of whether of not Joe Gaffe-tastic has actually revealed or leaked any “classified” information but I don’t think that a direct parallel of the exact same act was what Doug was alluding to by comparing this British official to Joe in his version of the story …
IMHO Doug was simply pointing out the fact that Joe isn’t the only one out there with an inate propensity to stick his foot in his mouth through his words and actions …
In fact … Joe hasn’t put his foot in his mouth in years … he just opens his mouth long enough to change feet …
I too am glad that they got the accused plotters … but I suspect that having to accelerate the arrests may have done 2 things …
1. It may have allowed other terrorists that were higher up the food chain that were involved in the financing and other aspects of the planned attacks to evade identification let alone capture … those individuals will be back …
2. It may result in some of these suspects getting released because they may not have had sufficient amounts of evidence gathered to fully prove their guilt and involvement in court …
I saw this on the news and, except for the seriousness of it, had to laugh. ALL secret information I was ever given access to always had a cover sheet so that no one else could see it when and if I was transporting it from one place to another. Even if it was carried in a folder or buried in a briefcase it still had a cover sheet. Here this guy just openly carries it.
It’s called operational security!
bansharia – The problem here is that people were able to read what was on that page at the very least. Imagine it was a partial list of undercover agents involved in the operation. Heck, it’s hard enough to get people to inform on the terrorists already. Do we want to make it even more difficult and dangerous?
In the US, an “anonymous source” in the State Department would have sold the document to the NY Times. No investigation would be forthcoming and the spy would continue in his job.
how about this headline you won’t ever see: Cabinet member knowing how UK has embraced islam deathcult spills the beans!!!
Quick didn’t know what he was doing?
and Greenspan never knew the size of his briefcase was watched by the clowns at CNBC…ahuh ahuh
I still don’t get the biden blunder ref or how this is a bad thing.
perhaps just mindless snarking…..
Since we’re not privy to all the Brits secrets, it’s dumb to assume no harm was done, duh! Perhaps the reason old joe hasn’t revealed any US Top Secrets is because he isn’t privy to such info.
Desert,
I respect your good intentions but if doug meant all that can say so himself.
B-cat agree who is to say this guy didn’t say blimey let me try this to get the story out!!!
bot line we just don’t know at this point, call me a dreamer but I’d really like to think there are good folks in gov left
so to assume harm was done is intelligent?
none of you are my enemy nor me yours.
Just not jumping to same conclusion Doug did
bansharia …
I respect your viewpoint as well … no problem …
At least the idiot had the decency to resign. Biden would have been shuffled back into his protective closet.
ErinF …
So in other words …
Biden Be Hidin’ …
shhhhhhhhhh!
“Top Secret”
I cant read teeny print did it mention valerie plame or joe wilson?
perhaps it was just a cocktail party invite list
BYOTPFB party
bring your own taxpayer funded booze
aj lolo gov teet cow?
I wonder WHO or What the police had to miss by moving earlier. There usually is a reason they want to keep something “operationally secret”-national security, mistress out of town, using state funds for booze “BYOTPFB”. Bob Quick does seem to act like Biden, but looks like Bob Beckel.
What a combination.
Ooooo! Joe Biden is so gunna scold Bob Quick. I personally live in terror of that kind of punishment. Look how it affected the W presidency.
This Doug Powers. I like his writing!
I’d like to see more articles with an Obama Admininstration-PC translation like the above. The ‘man-made disaster’ still irks me, but it shows the idiocy of this Global Leader of All and his unholy followers.
carter had billy to keep us smiling through the pain, obama has biden. god save us if obama should die, can you imagine big joe as potus. “i once told osama bin laden i would challenge him to a mano a mano duel with sabers, but the guy was too scared of me” “i’m serious as a heart attack folks, i’ll come to your town and challenge you to a duel, serious, serious. i’d win”
Two words: brief case.
Obviously, anti-terror chief is just another one of those jobs reserved for a member of the inbred royalty. Might be a good idea to replace him with someone who bothered to look up “security” in his English-to-stupid dictionary.
English-to-stupid dictionary? That works.
If this is an example of how they handle their country’s security, they are in deep doo-doo
Haha, I just posted in another thread about safe iPods and hadn’t read this yet….