Home Secretary corrects PM's and Blears' lies

The Scotsman today
is hot on the trail again about alleged Secret Services support for an assault on habeus corpus by requesting a 90 day period of arrest without charge in the Anti Terrorist legislation before Parliament this week.

Blair and Blears have continued to lie about the request from the Secret Services
http://postmanpatel.blogspot.com/2005/10/blair-blears-lie-on-secret-service.html
but now Charles Clarke is quoted by The Scotsman ;

Mr Clarke admits the request for 90 detention came solely from the police. " It is the police who, through their professionalism, came to the view that 90 days is right," he said. "The security service aren't committed to a 90-day figure, as such."

The Home Secretary, no doubt uncomfortable with the majority of 1 vote has accepted that, contrary to the suggestions from his colleagues, it would not be appropriate for MI5 to be making direct recommendations on government policy.

Based presumably on contacts they have with the services The Scotsman claim that the apparent contradiction between Mr Blair's claim and the reality has, " caused concern in parts of the security services, where many staff have painful memories of the government's use of the intelligence services to justify the war in Iraq."