Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, said on 7 November in an article for the Evening Standard newspaper that one of the main reasons the police want to hold suspects for 90 days is because of :
Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, said on 7 November in an article for the Evening Standard newspaper that one of the main reasons the police want to hold suspects for 90 days is because of :
“the immense time taken to decode super-encrypted hard drives on computers without a key”
Earlier this month, two top establishment figures, Lord Brown (the Intelligence Services Commissioner) and the Rt Hon Sir Swinton Thomas (Interception of Communications Commissioner), both – in their annual reports published last week – threw doubt on the police and government’s argument for holding terrorist suspects for 90 days (See Statewatch News Online, November 2005)