Lords fume as government whitewashes net security report

 

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By Barry Collins

Posted on 30 Oct 2007 at 13:02

Richard Clayton, the Cambridge academic who advised the Lords' committee, asks whether the government is "ignorant, stupid, or in the thrall of some special interest group?"

"The Government have settled for complacency, quibbling about the wording of the recommendations, and picking out a handful of the more minor recommendations to 'note' to 'consider' and to 'keep under review'," he says, before dismissing the response as "a whole series of missed opportunities".